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Prontopia Unveils Groundbreaking AI-Powered Business Video Solution, Simplifying Video Creation Cost-Effectively

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence, Prontopia empowers users to create engaging videos in under 60 seconds for $50 or less per video.

Key Points: 
  • Leveraging the capabilities of artificial intelligence, Prontopia empowers users to create engaging videos in under 60 seconds for $50 or less per video.
  • No other video creation platform on the market matches Prontopia's distinctive features, all powered by proprietary AI technology.
  • "Our AI-powered platform revolutionizes the video creation process, simplifying intricate productions into effortless stories," adds Ash Shehryar, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer.
  • For more information about Prontopia and its game-changing video production platform for businesses, please visit www.prontopia.com

Three Organizations Selected for World Education Services’ SIIP Demonstration Opportunity to Promote Equitable Teaching Pathways

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Friday, July 21, 2023

This iteration of the opportunity will focus on developing innovative practices that create pathways to teaching for internationally trained immigrants and refugees.

Key Points: 
  • This iteration of the opportunity will focus on developing innovative practices that create pathways to teaching for internationally trained immigrants and refugees.
  • The selected participants for the Promoting Equitable Teaching Pathways cohort are Asian Community & Cultural Center in Lincoln, Nebraska; the Mayor’s Office of Resilience and Equity, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois.
  • The SIIP Demonstration Opportunity was launched in 2022 to offer advanced technical assistance, program development, and financial support to partner organizations in the SIIP network which includes 40 communities across the U.S.
  • “Through this year’s cohort of the SIIP Demonstration Opportunity, WES is reinforcing our support of workforce inclusion strategies by focusing on this area of need.

In Celebration of International Women's Day, MentorCloud Launches WE Global Platform

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Monday, March 6, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, MentorCloud, the world's leading human-to-human learning and mentoring platform, is thrilled to announce the launch of the WE Global platform, designed exclusively for women and womxn, to network, learn and receive mentorship from successful women entrepreneurs and professionals, globally, with the goal of empowering them to accelerate their success.

Key Points: 
  • The WE platform is offered as a subscription for $10 per month.
  • "With the WE platform, more women will benefit from aha-moments while sharing their cultures from around the world, supporting each other, and together we raise each other," said Yasmine El Baggari, Executive Director of WE Platform at MentorCloud.
  • To celebrate the launch of the WE platform, MentorCloud is hosting a virtual event from 9:00-11:00 AM PST, on March 8th, International Women's Day.
  • For more information and to join the WE platform: https://www.mentorcloud.com/we-platform

Hiring Event Convenes Toronto’s Top Companies Looking to Employ Refugee Talent

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Monday, November 21, 2022

The Toronto Refugee Hiring Event is an interagency initiative led by the Refugee Jobs Agenda Roundtable and headed by co-chairs The Honourable Ratna Omidvar and Darrell Pinto.

Key Points: 
  • The Toronto Refugee Hiring Event is an interagency initiative led by the Refugee Jobs Agenda Roundtable and headed by co-chairs The Honourable Ratna Omidvar and Darrell Pinto.
  • The refugee hiring event is a great initiative because agency partners gather their resources and collectively lead the candidates to success, said The Honourable Ratna Omidvar.
  • His Worship John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, will open the event, joined by representatives from Jumpstart Refugee Talent, Starbucks Canada, and WES.
  • Besides the on-site Coaching Corner, there has been substantive planning happening prior to the event, said Malaz Sebai, director of operations at Jumpstart Refugee Talent.

WES Celebrates Passage of Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act in U.S. Congress

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week Congress passed the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This week Congress passed the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.
  • The Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act seeks to study the factors driving this underemployment, including limited recognition of credentials, barriers to occupational licensing, and uneven access to adult education and workforce development programs.
  • WES is proud to have worked with our partners to support the passage of the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act.
  • The bipartisan passage of the Bridging the Gap for New Americans Act highlights the enormous potential for immigrants and refugees to strengthen the American workforce and bolster the economy.

World Education Services Announces 16 U.S. Communities Selected to Join Its Skilled Immigrant Integration Program

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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- World Education Services (WES) today announced the 16 communities selected to join the fifth cohort of its Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP).

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- World Education Services (WES) today announced the 16 communities selected to join the fifth cohort of its Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP).
  • To be selected for SIIP, communities must be part of a local, regional, or state network of stakeholders that includes immigrant- and refugee-led organizations and communities of color.
  • The Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP) offers communities an opportunity to leverage technical assistance from WES and its national partners and to join a network of sites to further their state and local immigrant economic integration initiatives.
  • The SIIP network now consists of 40 member communities representing cities, states, and regions across the U.S.

Health Care Leaders Gather to Discuss Strategy to Integrate Internationally Educated Health Professionals to Help Meet Ontario’s Health Care Needs

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Monday, April 11, 2022

This is the first time these stakeholders will assemble to share their vision of how to rebuild Ontarios health workforce with the deliberate inclusion of internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).

Key Points: 
  • This is the first time these stakeholders will assemble to share their vision of how to rebuild Ontarios health workforce with the deliberate inclusion of internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs).
  • Yet the province has a database of over 8,000 internationally educated health professionals who registered with Ontario Health between 2017 and 2021.
  • This database includes internationally trained nurses, doctors, medical lab technicians, respiratory therapists, and other health professionals who could be supporting our health care system and caring for patients.
  • And we certainly cannot afford to lose their skills and experience when our health care system needs health professionals.

South African Qualification Authority and World Education Services Partner to Facilitate Qualifications Recognition for Refugees and Displaced People in South Africa

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Friday, November 12, 2021

WES will serve as a collaborative partner to SAQA in developing a pilot initiative in line with its Recognition Model for Refugees and Asylum Seekers to assess and recognize the credentials of those with incomplete or partial documentation. The one-year pilot will begin in 2022 to develop a customized model for South Africa that incorporates global best practices--including the methodology developed by WES through its Gateway Program, the UNESCO Qualifications Passport, as well as practices from the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT). This unique pilot in South Africa will build on established practices and expand into the principles of RPL (recognition of prior learning)-informed documentation process used by WES in its assessment of credentials and qualifications of refugees and displaced individuals.

Key Points: 
  • OTTAWA, Nov. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Last night, at the Groningen Declaration Network annual meeting, the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and World Education Services (WES) signed a partnership agreement that will ensure eligible refugees and displaced individuals can have their qualifications assessed and recognized in South Africa.
  • A significant number of individuals seeking SAQAs foreign evaluation services are refugees and those who have been forcibly displaced.
  • They often face challenges in meeting SAQAs application criteria to have their qualifications assessed for recognition.
  • Canada was welcoming thousands of Syrian refugees who were educated and skilled but left their home with little to nothing.

Five Sites Selected Across U.S. for World Education Services’ Inaugural Workforce Inclusion Demonstration Program

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, World Education Services (WES) announced the selection of five sites for its inaugural Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP) Demonstration Opportunity.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, World Education Services (WES) announced the selection of five sites for its inaugural Skilled Immigrant Integration Program (SIIP) Demonstration Opportunity.
  • These organizations will receive financial and technical assistance from WES Global Talent Bridge to develop promising workforce inclusion initiatives.
  • The SIIP Demonstration Opportunity selected from proposals that focused on bridging initiatives for internationally trained health care workers and programs that leverage immigrant and refugee professional networks to promote workforce inclusion.
  • For more information, contact: Jas Chana, Associate Director of Strategic Communications, World Education Services.

WES Launches #UntappedTalent Campaign to Raise Awareness of the Underemployment and Unemployment of Immigrants and Refugees

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

This underutilization of talent limits workforce diversity and denies communities the critical social, cultural, and linguistic competence of immigrant and refugee workers.

Key Points: 
  • This underutilization of talent limits workforce diversity and denies communities the critical social, cultural, and linguistic competence of immigrant and refugee workers.
  • We hope our new campaign will help to open pathways so that everyone has a fair chance of reaching their career goals.
  • For more than 45 years, WES has set the standard of excellence in the field of international academic credential evaluation.
  • Its philanthropic arm, the WES Mariam Assefa Fund, supports catalytic leaders and organizations working to build inclusive economies and to ensure that immigrants and refugees can achieve their aspirations and thrive.