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Thought Leadership
Can universities bridge the graduate skills gap?
In trying to make graduates more job-ready, universities will have to guard against inadvertently compromising some of their offerings.
Thought Leadership
Deciphering the skills we need for the new world of work
For Canada to have effective training and education policies, it needs to properly classify and define skills and link them to occupational data.
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Using VR, AI to help drivers keep pace with the fast-changing trucking industry
For Shelley Uvanile-Hesch, pursuing the life of a long-distance truck driver was as natural as it was for her father before her. Like him, she was drawn to the open roads, the elevated view of the natural world, the chance to see the four corners of North America, and the opportunity to learn from people she’d meet along the way.
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Helping displaced workers reskill in advanced manufacturing
Sanjiv Uthayakumar had worked in the printing industry maintaining the presses that produced newspapers and flyers in Ontario for several years, when the long simmering downturn in media and declining advertising dollars started to threaten his job security.
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Youth Spotlight: Ethan Boyer
In April 2019, the Future Skills Centre announced support for Actua’s Indigenous Youth in STEM for-credit programs in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Northern Alberta. This program is also supported by our corporate sector partners Suncor Energy Foundation and Imperial. I had the pleasure of hearing from participants Ethan Boyer and Jordan Zenhenko (previous youth spotlight blog post), about their experiences.
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Improving front-line care for growing number of Canadians living with dementia
After watching her grandmother suffer through dementia, Michelle Clermont resolved to leave her corporate job in software support and transition to the healthcare sector to work as a Personal Support Worker and ensure vulnerable people would feel protected by someone they could trust.
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Training displaced oil and gas workers to flourish in Alberta’s tech boom
Shona Clarke had spent more than 20 years working as a senior geologist in Calgary’s oil and gas industry when she lost her job as the global energy company she worked for downsized and restructured.
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Celebrating Year One of the Future Skills Centre
In our first year, we’ve collaborated with many partners to lay a strong foundation for our mission to help Canadians gain the skills they need — today and into the future — to thrive in a changing workforce. See what we’ve accomplished so far!
