Investment in the Internet of Things (IoT) requires both software and hardware development skills to embed "smart" into mobile devices, car, buildings and everyday objects that that few companies have in both areas.
In our school programs, we use a variety of strategies to both explicitly teach social-emotional skills and to embed practices that reinforce these skills throughout the school day.
Surrey county council chief executive David McNulty recognised this on taking charge of the authority's £1.7bn budget in 2009, and began putting systems in place to embed leadership skills right down into the organisation.
Paul Jackson, director of student support and development at the University of Leicester, said his institution was "looking closely at how to embed corporate skills into the curriculum at the undergraduate stage".
Educators need to embed academic skills in lectures and tutorials and provide feedback on student progress measured through effective assessment (Sambell et al. 2013).
The Higher Education Academy (HEA), has also taken on an active role, producing an employability framework and accompanying toolkit to embed employability skills in higher education learning.
The approach intends to embed naturally the skill learning capability during manufacturing operations (i.e., within a flexible manufacturing system).
"We had a situation where we were needed to embed some basic literacy skills simply to ensure people really knew about health and safety".
Another purchase for a different product might be far less digital, so we're trying to embed these necessary digital skills into all our marketeers.
This approach seeks to embed social inclusion in skills strategies, providing much-needed resilience for families and local communities by both supporting both young people and adults into employment and sustainable careers, and meeting the needs of employers.
The authors have a number of suggestions ranging from schools holding termly equivalents of "parents' evenings" for local businesses and community organisations, to universities drawing on new ideas about how "to embed transferable, work-based skills into the curriculum".
