Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, has become a leading proponent of competency-based education, a way to award degrees based on testing and portfolios rather than ...

Usually you find a job or start a business that relies on those skills for which you hold a high degree of competency. Businesses typically place people in positions that take advantage of the ...

The skills gap is generating unprecedented attention -- and with good reason. Nearly 8 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work while an estimated 6 million jobs remain unfilled.

For decades, the progression of the American dream was fairly straightforward: Graduate high school, go to college and get a job. But new developments in higher education may upend that traditional ...

Attorneys on both sides will argue Wednesday whether accused killer Nikko Jenkins is competent enough to stand trial for four Omaha murders.Ultimately, a judge will decide whether Jenkins is fit to ...

Educators are very familiar with “soft skills,” or those that are peripheral to the core curriculum—nice additions if you have the time. Associating “soft” with a skill often means it is often ...

Small businesses often have a harder time attracting and hiring the best employees for specific jobs when they write traditional task-focused job descriptions in their want ads. Competency-based job ...

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