Student volunteer service under 5 CFR 308 and other Federal programs designed togive internship experience to students (e.g., fellowships and similar programs) may beevaluated, considered and credited when the experience is comparable to experiencegained in the Internship Program. Agencies may also waive up to one-half (320 hours)of the 640-hour minimum service requirement when an Intern completes 320 hours ofcareer-related work experience under an Internship Program appointment anddemonstrates high potential by outstanding academic achievement and exceptional jobperformance.

Demonstrate the importance of learning and development by providing time,support, and resources for employees and hiring managers to participate inlearning and development activities.

Maryland also ditched degree requirements for many state jobs last summer, and some other states and cities are performing similar reevaluations. For example, Philadelphia and St. Paul, Minnesota, have set up apprenticeship programs for municipal jobs, while Denver has partnered with Hertz to offer training and summer job opportunities to youth to install public electric car chargers, says Michael Bartlett, program manager at the National League of Cities.

To promote the new policy, the Shapiro administration also launched a new website where applicants can search for jobs that don't require a four-year diploma.

Qualified expenses are amounts paid for tuition, fees and other related expense for an eligible student that are required for enrollment or attendance at an eligible educational institution. You must pay the expenses for an academic period* that starts during the tax year or the first three months of the next tax year.   Eligible expenses also include student activity fees you are required to pay to enroll or attend the school. For example, an activity fee that all students are required to pay to fund all on-campus student organizations and activities.

TranscriptableMicro-credentials will be compatible with traditional transcripts, where possible.

Open access to knowledge and education is widely recognised as an irreplaceable factor for social and human growth and an indispensable component to consolidate and enrich citizenship, capable of giving citizens the necessary competencies to face the challenges of the new millennium, together with an awareness of shared values and of belonging to diverse social and cultural spaces. The importance of education and educational cooperation in the development and strengthening of stable, inclusive, peaceful and democratic societies is universally acknowledged as paramount. We now need to add open recognition to this list.

They create the conditions for individuals to be in control of their own recognition, to establish their identity and agency, whether formally (within institutions) or informally (across communities).

we have the means and the opportunity to put an end to the disparities of the recognition landscape

Open Badges, the open standard for the recognition of learning achievements has proved the power of a simple, affordable, resilient and trustworthy technology to create an open recognition ecosystem working across countries, educational sectors, work, social environments and technologies

perhaps even offer

use of title IV funds for these alternative credentials and instead of connecting learning to time spent on task and connected learning to evidence of mastery

united around employment sectors and created an array of credentials that they will accept

U.S. Department of Education brought together industry leaders and developed a process by which alternative credentials could be easily identified and standardized so that it was clear what holders of those credentials know and are able to do.

There are currently no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Montana, but state officials said 25 people have been monitored for the illness, seven are still under surveillance and one was tested after showing possible symptoms. That test came back negative.

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