Abstract
As noted in the foreword of this Special Issue, COVID-19 has accelerated the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s or Industry 4.0’s disruption to the labour market (Sally, 2021). Beyond Industry 4.0 (I4.0), the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by enterprises, underscoring the need for workers to continuously upskill their digital competencies in order to remain relevant (Heinonen & Strandvik, 2021). Besides digitisation, organisations have had to innovate and adopt new business models to adapt to the ‘new normal’ of surviving and growing beyond the COVID-19 pandemic (Heinonen & Strandvik, 2021). In countries that largely relied on skilled migration as an important source of talent, the closure of international borders has restricted mobility of human capital resulting in insufficient skilled employees to meet the current and ever-increasing demand for skills (Guadagno, 2020).
RAS ID
36252
Document Type
Other
Date of Publication
2021
School
School of Business and Law
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Publisher
Deakin University
Comments
Seet, P. S., & Jones, J. T. (2021). Extending micro-credentials to micro-apprenticeships for the fourth industrial revolution: Enhancing vocational education and training in the post-pandemic’s ‘new normal’. Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 12(1), 39-43.
https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/jtlge/article/view/1317