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Winnipeg Hosts its First ECONx Summit at the RBC Convention Centre
Content from: Radio Canada
April 29, 2025
On Tuesday, Winnipeg is hosting its first ECONx, an economic summit focused on its future, at the RBC Convention Centre. Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre, explains that the goal is to discuss and design Winnipeg's future.
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Overskilled and Underused? What PIAAC Reveals About the Canadian Workforce
Content from: HigherEd Strategy, Alex Usher | April 24, 2025
Today my guest is the CEO of Canada’s Future Skills Centre, Noel Baldwin. Over the past decade, both in his roles at FSC, his previous ones at the Council Minister of Education Canada, he’s arguably been one of the country’s most dedicated users of PIAAC data. As part of Canada’s delegation to the OECD committee in charge of PIAAC, he also had a front row seat to the development of these tests and the machinery behind these big international surveys.
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Two new AI tools to help you land a job
Content from: Betakit, Jacqueline Loganathan | March 13, 2025
Artificial intelligence has quietly moved from behind the scenes to the front lines of hiring.
Companies are now relying on AI to sift through résumés, rank candidates, and forecast job performance, sometimes before humans even get involved. Speed and automation now help dictate who gets a foot in the door.
News Release
More Canadians to benefit from skills development through expansion of promising solutions by Future Skills Centre
FSC is pleased to announce a new investment of $14.3 million to expand more than a dozen innovative approaches to skills development addressing the urgent need to ensure Canada’s workforce is resilient and prepared for the future.
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Open Call for Expressions of Interest to Provide Evaluation And Learning Support
FSC seeks to engage external evaluators to support its knowledge generation and evaluation objectives.
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The Future of Skills in the Trades
Content from: thefutureeconomy.ca
By: Brynn Bourke and Noel Baldwin | February 18, 2025
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Canadians need better skills training and recognition to tackle 21st century challenges
While Canada gets decent grades in numeracy, literacy and problem-solving, the country is not a superstar performer.
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L’intelligence artificielle menace 810 000 emplois au Québec
Contenu provenant de : lapresse.ca | 15 janvier 2025
Comme toutes les nouvelles technologies, l’arrivée de l’intelligence artificielle dans nos vies fait craindre des pertes d’emplois dans plusieurs secteurs d’activité. Au Québec, 810 000 personnes, soit 18 % de la main-d’œuvre totale, occupent un emploi vulnérable au développement de l’intelligence artificielle, selon une étude de l’Institut du Québec.
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Getting Canadians Ready for the Future of Skills
FSC Executive Director Noel Baldwin chats with Stefano Scarpetta and Lynette Plett about the recent OECD PIAAC survey.