As new technologies and career demands make skills updating ever-more important, institutions need to improve take-up and delivery of lifelong learning. Public institutions face a challenge for designing lifelong learning programs that meet mid-career learner needs for short duration, high value credentials. The need to prepare these programs is all the more urgent as the federal Canada Training Benefit will encourage learners to enroll in microcredential programs. However, the amount of available research on ways to deliver microcredentials as a means to provide high quality and in-demand training for employers and mid-career workers alike is limited.

The Strategic Counsel and Higher Education Strategy Associates are combining to provide post-secondary institutions with timely research designed to provide institutions with timely, expert advice on the design of and market for microcredentials. TSC brings years of market research and HESA provides expertise in analysing the key issues affecting the post-secondary sector.

Drawing on our combined experience, we are developing a unique subscription product for post-secondary institutions that provides in depth, market relevant information about microcredentials, currently scheduled to be completed in Fall 2019.

The report will draw on an extensive review of microcredential experiences and global evidence concerning the operation of short, stackable credentials, a nationwide survey of human resource professionals, and a survey of hundreds of mid-career employees. We are also offering subscribing institutions an opportunity to provide us with custom targeted questions or to conduct surveys of their alumni for additional fees.  All subscribers to this report will also receive access to a webinar presentation.

For more details on pricing, custom report options, and our proposed methodology, see our kit: Microcredentials Today – A Proposal.

If you have more questions, get in touch with us.