Give Me Skills
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Interact-Interact
100

The combined action of a group, especially when effective and efficient.


Teamwork

100

AI

Artificial Intelligence

100

Singapore program that provides up to 90% in government subsidies to encourage continuing education among older workers.

Skills Future

100

Learn and be ___________ (Amazon - 14 principles)

Curious

100

PPP stands for__________

Public Private Partnerships

200

The ability to communicate or interact well with other people.

Interpersonal

200

A system in Singapore where labor unions, employers, and the government come together to make decisions that will affect all groups involved.

Triparte

200

Estimated percentage of jobs in the top 20 that will be disrupted by 2018 due to technology 

40%

200

Skills Gaps Are __________ (Wiley)

Opportunities

200

A period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time.

Internship

300

A range of cognitive, affective, and behavioural skills that lead to effective and appropriate communication with people of other cultures.

Interpersonal Skills

300

Started in 2009, a transboundary cooperation Initiative, involving Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR. 

The Lower Mekong Initiative

300

Instead of destination learning, education must be reformed to this type of learning in order to stay up-to-date.

Continuous

300

The difference between AI, Big Data, and IoT is __________

Taxonomy

300

A term given to a program, usually run through a university, which allows a student to live in a foreign country and attend a foreign university.

Study Abroad

400

The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.

Problem Solving

400

A national movement to provide Singaporeans with the opportunities to develop their fullest potential through life through skills mastery and lifelong learning

SkillsFuture Movement

or 

SkillsFuture

400

In addition to innovation, _____________, is needed to balance inequalities.

Inclusion

400

Worker 4.0 looks at these three categories of skills to determine training and services so that workers are ready, relevant, and resilient for the workforce.

Adaptive, Technology, and Technical Skills

400

A process that fosters the exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share a common interest. It may be for social or business purposes.

Network

500

The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

Creativity

500

An online clearinghouse enabling displaced and refugee students to connect with educational opportunities so they may continue formal and informal higher education.

Platform for Education in Emergencies Response

or 

PEER

500

According to the WEF, the number of years that it will take the world to close the gender pay gap

217

500

The combination of these three systems comprises the Fourth industrial revolution.

Cyber, Biological, Physical

500

An example of interaction, this one week course, gathered government and academic participants in Singapore for one week, in order to discuss current and future initiatives aimed at building a resilient workforce in the age of digital transformation.

Building a Resilient and Inclusive Workforce for the Future Economy