Usually you find a job or start a business that relies on those skills for which you hold a high degree of competency. Businesses typically place people in positions that take advantage of the ...

The skills gap is generating unprecedented attention -- and with good reason. Nearly 8 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work while an estimated 6 million jobs remain unfilled.

Competency-based education could be the key to providing quality, postsecondary education to millions of Americans at a lower cost, writes Louis Soares. Mozilla’s Open Badges Initiative and MITx—the ...

"Competency-based” education appears to be this year’s answer to America’s higher education challenges, judging from this week's news in Washington. Unlike MOOCs (last year’s solution), there is, ...

Small businesses often have a harder time attracting and hiring the best employees for specific jobs when they write traditional task-focused job descriptions in their want ads. Competency-based job ...

In its continuous endeavour to improve the quality of education, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has implemented several valuable initiatives. The focus is shifting towards ...

Purdue University has announced a new "AI working competency" requirement, the first of its kind at an institution of higher learning, for all undergraduate students on their main campus, Indianapolis ...