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Neurodiversity in Canadian postsecondary education
Content from: UniversityAffairs.ca
May 15, 2025 by Sparrow McGowan
Despite increased access to postsecondary education, neurodivergent students remain underrepresented in Canadian institutions and less than half disclose their identities and diagnoses, according to a recent report by The Conference Board of Canada and the Future Skills Centre. Neuroinclusive policies and practices can promote student retention and success, says the report, but they need to be integrated and centralized.
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DATA in a New WaY: colleges connect rural learners to tech training
Content from: DiscoverEstevan.com
May 14, 2025 by Larissa McEwen
Southeast College and Suncrest College have partnered to launch DATA In a New WaY (Digital and Tech Access for Indigenous, Newcomers, Women and Youth), a new computer science and workplace training initiative set to begin in June 2025.
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Canada’s Biomanufacturing Sector Faces 16,000-Worker Talent Gap
Content from: TechTalent.ca
May 12, 2025
Canada’s growing ambitions to lead in vaccine and biologics manufacturing face a serious bottleneck: a shortage of skilled workers.
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Neurodiversity in Canadian postsecondary education
Content from: UniversityAffairs.ca
May 15, 2025 by Sparrow McGowan
Despite increased access to postsecondary education, neurodivergent students remain underrepresented in Canadian institutions and less than half disclose their identities and diagnoses, according to a recent report by The Conference Board of Canada and the Future Skills Centre. Neuroinclusive policies and practices can promote student retention and success, says the report, but they need to be integrated and centralized.
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DATA in a New WaY: colleges connect rural learners to tech training
Content from: DiscoverEstevan.com
May 14, 2025 by Larissa McEwen
Southeast College and Suncrest College have partnered to launch DATA In a New WaY (Digital and Tech Access for Indigenous, Newcomers, Women and Youth), a new computer science and workplace training initiative set to begin in June 2025.
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Canada’s Biomanufacturing Sector Faces 16,000-Worker Talent Gap
Content from: TechTalent.ca
May 12, 2025
Canada’s growing ambitions to lead in vaccine and biologics manufacturing face a serious bottleneck: a shortage of skilled workers.
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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.
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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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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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Future Skills Centre tackles ongoing skills shortage by investing in programs helping thousands land in-demand jobs for today and tomorrow
Toronto, May 12, 2022 —The Future Skills Centre (FSC) takes on the growing skilled labour shortage and widening skills-to-jobs mismatch by announcing today a $19M…
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FSC establishes $20 million partnership with CPMT to support workforce development in Quebec
Toronto, February 18, 2022 – Skills development in Quebec received a large injection of support to help Quebecers face a changing labour market and prepare…
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Neurodiversity in Canadian postsecondary education
Content from: UniversityAffairs.ca
May 15, 2025 by Sparrow McGowan
Despite increased access to postsecondary education, neurodivergent students remain underrepresented in Canadian institutions and less than half disclose their identities and diagnoses, according to a recent report by The Conference Board of Canada and the Future Skills Centre. Neuroinclusive policies and practices can promote student retention and success, says the report, but they need to be integrated and centralized.
In the Media
DATA in a New WaY: colleges connect rural learners to tech training
Content from: DiscoverEstevan.com
May 14, 2025 by Larissa McEwen
Southeast College and Suncrest College have partnered to launch DATA In a New WaY (Digital and Tech Access for Indigenous, Newcomers, Women and Youth), a new computer science and workplace training initiative set to begin in June 2025.
In the Media
Canada’s Biomanufacturing Sector Faces 16,000-Worker Talent Gap
Content from: TechTalent.ca
May 12, 2025
Canada’s growing ambitions to lead in vaccine and biologics manufacturing face a serious bottleneck: a shortage of skilled workers.