🔦 AI Apprenticeships Step into the Spotlight. 🏛 Join us in DC, March 25-26 for Global Skills Week.
AI apprenticeships scale, public–private partnerships deepen, and Global Skills Week (25-26 March) brings workforce leaders to DC.
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"AI apprenticeships" are quickly becoming one of the most tangible ways governments and employers are translating “future skills” into real workforce pathways. Recently California committed $22M to expand apprenticeship pipelines for in-demand fields, the US Department of Labor launched a national apprenticeship for AI literacy program, and UK employers including the AA partnered with Multiverse while Gi Group UK rolled out new upskilling pathways. These moves point to a growing playbook: build AI talent where the work happens. In a field moving this quickly, proximity to real workflows makes a lot of sense. Watch for a continued wave of new public–private partnerships that position workplaces as the front line for AI capability building.
Interest in Degree Apprenticeships continue to rise.
There is significant interest in the concept of degree-level apprenticeships, and hybrid models spanning traditional postsecondary boundaries are increasingly accepted.
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🎙️ Hear from the world’s leading voices on skills and workforce transformation.
Global Skills Week March 25-26 Washington, D.C. 🇺🇸
Global Skills Week 2026 convenes the world’s leading skills-focused voices from industry, post-secondary institutions and business schools, alongside senior policy-makers and economic development and technology leaders. Check out the agenda-to-date—more to announce soon!
⭐ AI & Digital Innovation Spotlight
֎ OpenAI launched an Australia‑wide AI skills and jobs programme, including collaborations with corporations, and aims to deliver essential AI literacy courses to over 1.2M workers and small businesses to boost skills and practical AI use.
💡 India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology announced plans to extend AI training to 500 universities nationwide, aiming to create a talent pipeline with specialised curricula, tools, and infrastructure support for students and faculty.
✨ SkillsVR has launched EVA, an AI‑powered learning assistant that unifies workforce training across VR, mobile, and web platforms, provides real‑time learner support, and automatically captures training records into a single system.
🤝 Policy & Partnerships
🎓 Thailand partnered with Canva to expand digital learning in private schools by training staff, teachers, and students to create learning materials using the Canva for Education platform, and will monitor outcomes annually to support nationwide implementation.
🤖 Apple has opened a new Education Hub in Bengaluru, India, to expand skill‑building and training programs for employees across its supplier network in collaboration with the Manipal Academy of Higher Education.
🚀 Chegg Skills and accredited institution Woolf collaborated to create skill‑first degrees that allow learners to apply career‑relevant skills from Chegg programs toward undergraduate and postgraduate credentials awarded by Woolf.
💪 Power Moves & Funding
💡 BeConfident, a Brazilian language learning companion provider, raised $16.2M to expand operations to the US, Europe, and Asia.
🤖 Vimi, an AI tutoring platform, has raised $12M in seed funding to develop AI-powered tutoring solutions for K-12 students.
🧠 Teacher's Buddy, an AI platform for educators, raised $1.4M to expand its AI planning tool aimed at reducing workload and burnout for teachers in New Zealand, Australia, and the UK.
📈 Savi, an education financing solution provider, announced its acquisition of Fiducius, an education benefits provider for employees.
🔄 Quizlet, a global learning study platform, announced new AI-powered study modes, a redesigned mobile app, and the acquisition of Slader, an educational resource for math and science solutions.
