Source: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-issues-final-rule-create-new-workforce-pell-grant-program
A serious program isn't the long one it's the one that works.
There's a quiet assumption most institutions still run on: the longer and costlier a program is, the more legitimate it must be. However, A new U.S. federal policy just broke that assumption at the highest level - extending funding once reserved for four-year degrees to workforce programs as short as 8 weeks, judged purely on whether graduates land high-skill, high-wage jobs. Length stopped being the proxy for value. Outcomes are. That shift maps directly onto what L&D has quietly been working toward for years, across a few fronts: Program design. Shorter, sharper interventions built around one real skill gap are starting to outperform sprawling curricula built to look comprehensive. Time-to-competency. The organizations getting real results are increasingly the ones compressing that timeline; not by cutting corners, but by cutting the parts of a program that were never really teaching anything. Continuous over one-time. A serious learning culture treats capability as something built in cycles; practiced, reinforced, measured again and not delivered once in a big program and assumed to stick. Which of these three is hardest to fix in your organization - design, speed, or continuity? Drop it in the comments, we're curious what's actually breaking for other teams.
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