Reading Time: 2 minutes Over 700 employers and 1,300 first-year apprentices benefit
Tag: Trades
Trudeau’s ‘Just Transition’ to ‘disrupt’ over 2.7 million jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The building trades, transportation, agriculture, energy, and manufacturing will all be affected
The skilled trades shortage has a solution: women
Reading Time: 3 minutes But women have challenges that most men don’t have when entering the trades
Women still facing barriers to careers in skilled trades
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why is change so slow?
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
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?
Opening the doors to innovative young Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal $221-million investment in work‑integrated learning placements for post-secondary students and graduates must include colleges and polytechnics
We need to broaden our focus as we push for innovation
Reading Time: 3 minutes An inclusive talent strategy for innovation must include polytechnics and colleges – to produce skilled workers who can carry out, and scale up, concepts