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Postpandemic World  \nEDUCATION NETWORK  \nContents  \nExecutive Summary 1 Setting the Stage 8  \nSidebar: Defining Intermediaries 9 The Problem 11  \nBuilding Bridges: The Role of Intermediaries 13 The Economic Imperative 14  \n• Boosting the Economy in Manchester, England 15  \n• Chambers of Commerce Stepping Up 16 The Equity Imperative 17  \n• Britain’s Civic University Network 18  \n• The Conductor in the Orchestra in Mobile, Alabama 20 Speaking a Common Skills Language 23  \n• A Focus on Skills in Singapore 24  \n• The Virtuous Cycle in Detroit 26  \n• Sidebar: The “Pracademic.” 28 Connecting Supply With Demand 29  \n• The “Higher Apprenticeship” Model in Australia 31  \n• The “Montana Network.” 32  \n• Sidebar: Mapping the Local Workforce System 34 Working Together 35  \n• Workforce Development Councils in New Zealand 37  \n• Sidebar: How To Pay 38 Conclusion: Actions for Intermediaries 41  \nAppendices: Digging Deeper 42  \nAppendix A: The Strada Education Network – Lumina Foundation  \nGlobal Postsecondary Workforce Initiative 43  \nAppendix B: Challenges in the Education-to-Work Pipeline 44  \nAppendix C: Lessons From the Last Recession 48  \nAppendix D: Skills Frameworks in the United States 49  \nEndnotes 50  \nExecutive Summary  \nThe 2020 global pandemic, accompanying economic distress, and growing concern about racial inequity have generated unprecedented demand for improved coordination between education and work in the United States. This report focuses on the pressing need to create and improve intermediaries—bridge builders that play a vital role in connecting local and regional educators, employers, policymakers, learners, and workers, helping them to speak a common language and tackle common challenges.  \n“Bridge Builders: How Intermediaries Can Connect Education and Work in a Postpandemic World”demonstrates the tremendous potential of intermediaries by looking at promising models from around the world, including many in the United States. It shows how these bridge builders can connect a diverse group of stakeholders to create an education-employment system that will help the economy thrive while increasing opportunities for all, not only during the current global pandemic, but long after. The report grew out of a working group of 10 of the world’s leading education and workforce experts brought together in early 2020 by Strada Education Network and Lumina Foundation to discuss how promising efforts from around the globe might inform plans in the United States to better align postsecondary education and training with workforce needs.  \n“Bridge Builders” explores lessons learned and strategies for building stronger bridges between education and work, and it offers practical guidance for those who want to create, improve, or expand the role of intermediaries.  \nWHAT  \nIntermediaries—also referred to as bridge builders, boundary spanners, conveners, and other names—fill the critical role of connecting all the parties in the system to empower people with the skills required in the labor force. Those parties generally include employers, educators, workers, and prospective workers. Within these categories may fall many other interests, such as unions, philanthropic and faith-based organizations, advocates for low-income people and racial and ethnic minorities, civic groups, chambers of commerce, political leaders, schools that place students in apprenticeships, and public agencies that help people find jobs. Intermediaries in the United States and globally include quasi-government entities such as New Zealand’s new Workforce Development Councils, nonprofits such as the Mobile (Alabama) Area Education Foundation, employer groups such as the Australian Industry Group, business associations such as  \nthe U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and higher education groups such as Britain’s Civic University Commission.  \nBRIDGE BUILDERS: HOW INTERMEDIARIES CAN CONNECT EDUCATION AND WO","cbCaipf3unrI4H1h","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipf3unrI4H1h","pdf",434537,"English","# Executive Summary\n## Setting the Stage\n## Defining Intermediaries\n## The Problem\n# Building Bridges\n## The Role of Intermediaries\n## The Economic Imperative\n## The Equity Imperative\n## Speaking a Common Skills Language\n## Connecting Supply With Demand\n## Working Together\n## Conclusion: Actions for Intermediaries\n# Appendices\n## Digging Deeper\n## Appendix A: The Strada Education Network – Lumina Foundation\n## Appendix B: Challenges in the Education-to-Work Pipeline\n## Appendix C: Lessons From the Last Recession\n## Appendix D: Skills Frameworks in the United States","[{\"question\":\"Why does the report focus on improving coordination between education and work after the pandemic?\",\"answer\":\"The pandemic, economic distress, and concerns about racial inequity have increased demand for better coordination between education and labor markets in the United States.\"},{\"question\":\"What role do intermediaries (bridge builders) play in the education-to-work system?\",\"answer\":\"Intermediaries connect stakeholders such as employers, educators, workers, and policymakers, helping them communicate using a common skills language and address shared challenges.\"},{\"question\":\"What major obstacles does the report say intermediaries must address?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights issues like rapidly changing job requirements during recession and recovery, unequal access to pathways for Black, Latino, and low-income learners, credential confusion without a shared skills language, persistent supply-demand gaps, and unclear roles across many key players.\"}]","Bridge Builders: How Intermediaries Can Connect Education and Work in a Postpandemic World | PDF",1792051561,76]