Entries by learningsociet

Learning Throughout The Life Course: In Dialogue with Katie Caves

Katie Caves is a senior researcher and lecturer at ETH Zurich, where she studies global vocational education and training systems to identify models that work, and how they can be adapted to different contexts. Caves’ work is concerned with large-scale systems change, creating more mutually equitable and beneficial learning infrastructure for students, businesses, and economies.

Building a Learning Society

As working lives extend and skills are shifting, UC San Diego’s John Skrentny and Mary Walshok argue the solution to upskilling already lives inside research universities—as extension and continuing education programs they are calling “career sustainers.”

Workforce Realigned, Volume II

Following on their first compilation, Social Finance assembles some of the sharpest thinkers and practitioners providing insight on promising novel ways to enable transitions and mobility in employment.