Reading Time: 3 minutes Government needs to be thinking about smart investments to make applied education safe and accessible
Author: Polytechnics Canada
Polytechnics Canada is the voice of leading research-intensive, publicly funded polytechnics, colleges and institutes of technology. Our mission is policy advocacy for federal action related to innovation and skills.
Mid-career workers are higher education’s next challenge
Reading Time: 3 minutes The traditional student no longer exists. That means we need to find ways to encourage and fund lifelong learning
Canada’s polytechnics represent disruption in action
Reading Time: 3 minutes They offer industry-relevant programs, equipment and facilities that ready learners for a constantly changing workplace
Colleges and polytechnics key to business innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s unlock their full potential with greater and more consistent government funding
Canada needs new data for a new economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to focus on assessing skills in workforce development as we prepare for the inevitable job shift
The need to nurture a skills economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes We can’t talk about the future of work without also talking about the future of education
Reclaim brownfield sites by putting science funding to practical use
Reading Time: 3 minutes The payoffs from investing more in applied research collaboration among different kinds of institutions are practical and long-lasting
The job-market payoff of a hands-on bachelor’s degree
Reading Time: 4 minutes The graduate employment rate for bachelor’s degree holders from Polytechnics Canada members was 91 per cent in 2015-16
Preparing for the coming workplace automation revolution
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manitoba’s Red River College’s Smart Factory offers a solution by bringing students and industry together
Robots in the workforce: resistance is futile, so we must adapt
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nearly half of the Canadian labour force is at high risk of automation within the next two decades, so how should we prepare?