🧠 AI Skills as the New Literacy. Join the Future of Skills and Work Forum in D.C., March 26.
As AI fluency gains traction, ensuring learners have the right opportunities and support to acquire skills and navigate the new frontier of careers will be critical. Join us for Global Skills Week.
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As AI adoption accelerates, education providers are expanding efforts to build foundational AI & digital skills earlier. This week, CodeMonkey introduced a new K-8 digital literacy curriculum, while Innovate Tech X launched a Certified AI Engineer Pathway for high school students. At the same time, Google, Intel, and OpenAI are ramping up AI upskilling programs in Poland, India, and Spain. Yet questions remain about how quickly these efforts will scale.
At Global Skills Week, the Early Career Navigation workshop, led by American Student Assistance, will explore what it will take to prepare young people for an evolving workforce. As AI fluency gains traction, ensuring learners have the right opportunities and support to navigate their careers will be just as critical as the evolving set of skills themselves.
Top ten specialized skills in AI job postings in the United States, 2010 and 2022 (Thousands of Jobs)
AI is driving demand for skilled professionals, with data science and AWS skills seeing a 150x rise in job postings, potentially outpacing talent supply. Python and computer science expertise saw over 200K new AI job postings from 2010 to 2022, with another 100K+ increase across other key skills during the same period, highlighting the growing talent gap.
🇺🇸 Future of Skills & Work Forum. Washington D.C. Wednesday 26 March.
Global Skills Week is where education, industry, and policy converge. Space is limited—secure your spot today and connect with top leaders driving the skills economy forward. Read the agenda & register now
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🔗 Join the leaders shaping the Future of Skills and Work.
Leaders and experts from industry, economic development, higher education, technology and employers will explore future skills and the evolving connection between education and the workforce. Places at the Future of Skills and Work forum are strictly limited. Register now to secure your place
💪 This Week's Power Moves
🤖 The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in India, in collaboration with Intel, has launched a program to train 100K young innovators in AI and entrepreneurial skills.
⚙️ Synopsys has partnered with the SEMI Foundation to advance workforce development in the semiconductor industry, focusing on training and education initiatives.
🚀 QURECA and IMPACTIFI have formed a strategic partnership to enhance quantum education and workforce readiness across industries.
💰Funding
💵 The Riverside Company, a US investment firm, acquired Wall Street Prep (WSP), a financial training provider, to expand its market share in financial training services.
📚 Commercial Services Group, a UK-based logistics firm, has acquired WF Education Group to further its footprint across the UK and France.
👩🏻🏫 EDGE Tutor International, a Philippines-based online tutoring provider, raised $1M to scale operations further in North America, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
📐 Polymath, a New Zealand-based a math solution, raised $860K to expand to the US market and enhance its gamified learning app.