The economic benefits of vocational education and training in South Africa

whitePaper | July 29, 2023

Last year, the assembly of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization agreed to set an aspirational goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, reinforcing targets and commitments made already by both industry and individual states for the sector. While net zero provides a common goal for aviation, it comes with a recognition that this sector is likely to be one of the hardest to abate. Most stakeholders agree that meeting this challenge will require a broad approach, encompassing both operational efficiencies and changing the ways we fuel flight.

whitePaper | May 31, 2021

A key challenge that L&D teams face globally is holding the attention of the learners with engaging eLearning. As budgets rise and shrink, L&D teams also need to demonstrate the effectiveness of the training programs and justify costs to senior management and finance teams.

whitePaper | November 25, 2021

The global pandemic has accelerated change in many sectors. In higher education, the rapid change to emergency remote delivery triggered an unprecedented world-wide experiment in online learning. In 2020, most university leaders considered this rapid move to online successful

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

SECURE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PARTNER SOLUTIONS FOR SCHOOLS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, AND CAMPUSES

whitePaper | May 30, 2022

Project-based learning (PBL) is an inquiry-based approach that aims to engage students in challenging, active, and meaningful experiences connected to the world outside the classroom (Baines et al., 2021a). Project-based learning can improve student performance on traditional measures of academic achievement, build social and emotional learning skills, and engage students in deeper learning. This means focusing on higher-order think-ing and skills that will help students succeed in college, their future careers, and their lives as active members of their communities. The alignment of PBL and deeper learning is supported by a growing body of evidence that PBL has a significant positive impact on student learning and other outcomes of deeper learning (Duke et al., 2021; Deutscher et al., 2021; Krajcik et al., 2021; Saavedra et al., 2021). This paper will provide guidance for those who are designing curricula1 to achieve similar goals through project-based learning.

whitePaper | June 18, 2022

At the time of this writing, The United States Census Bureau states the country’s population is 328.6 million people. An interesting bit of trivia, perhaps, but all the more intriguing when one realizes that 44 million of those people (~13.4 percent) collectively owe $1.5 trillion in student loan debt (Friedman, 2019).