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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

This rapid digital acceleration has created a huge demand for more highly skilled workers who can develop software, program machines, and support new innovations. Bureau of Labor Statistics says the demand for software developers will grow 22 percent through 2030. The world’s major economies stand to lose up to $11.5

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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And in this environment, the education industry sees an unprecedented transformation due in part to a new industrial revolution. During the past decade, we have seen only the beginning of changes in the education industry. All of this creates an industry ripe for further disruption on a global scale.

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A Bootcamp Down Under: Trilogy Education Extends University Tech Training Globally

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As much as 50 percent of employees in the country could be working in roles that require programming or software skills by 2030, according to estimates in a 2016 report by the National Broadband Network and the Regional Australia Institute. Trilogy’s worldly ambitious extend beyond Australia.

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What the World Can Teach the US About Education Technology

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China’s Education Modernization 2030 Policy and Ten Year Development Plan for ICT and Education 2010-2020 are among government initiatives named that intend to improve the country’s education in the long run. Extending access to education technology beyond schools is also key. For that, the authors commend the work of Project Unicorn.

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Riverside Insights Acquires Aperture Education

eSchool News

With our K-12 solutions for students and educators, Aperture and Riverside have a synergistic goal of enriching one billion lives globally by 2030,” said Rajib Roy, CEO of Riverside Insights. Alpine specializes in investments in companies in the software and services industries.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

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Credit: Reba Saldanha/AP There are deep shortages of workers in information technology fields, according to the labor market analytics firm Lightcast, which says that there were more than 4 million job postings over the last year in the United States for software developers, database administrators and computer user support specialists.

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Pearson’s Former Product Chief Reflects on the 4 Megatrends Shaping Global Education

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Your knowledge of COBOL or Fortran (or maybe even Ruby) won’t do you much good if you’re looking for a software engineering job today (though in fairness some have found ways to capitalize on the scarcity created by obsolescence ).Not Think of it as the human inversion of Moore’s Law. Which brings me to.

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