Human Resources committee  The first one is a complex one. We start with the employers bringing forward their need for the Red Seal. I think there are about 55 in the country now. We need that to occur, and then it spreads out through the governments and through the training institutions. There is some l

Human Resources committee  We have tried to embed business-type learning outcomes where we can. At the college we have looked at doing that within all of our programs—apprenticeship and regular programming—because even if you don't go through the apprenticeship—if you're in our chef program, our electrical

Human Resources committee  Cape Breton really does that.

Human Resources committee  You've raised a number of points, several of which I hinted at earlier, and I only wish I had a little more time. The book, which I hope you do read, gets at that. This is a phenomenon. How we value specific work has resonated into the cuts we've made in our district school boa

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to follow up with a military piece. I think the former Chief of the Defence Staff was wise, and his team was wise, when he started to look at this disconnect between the excellent training that our military members have and not having civilian crede

Human Resources committee  They have not been positive. I think Ottawa's key differentiator is the quality of having four outstanding academic institutions: Ottawa U, Carleton, La Cité Collégiale, and Algonquin. To your colleague to your left, unlike this province, Alberta has made a significant difference

Human Resources committee  In my comments, I referred to the myth that exists in higher education, and it's real. There are many reports. This is not just a Canadian problem; it's an American and European problem. Individuals are underemployed there too. Rick Miner talks about jobs without people and peo

Human Resources committee  Dr. King from Queen's University led a double-cohort study in Ontario that produced four different reports. His work showed that colleges like Algonquin were always focused on recruiting students in grades 10, 11, and 12. What became clear from Dr. King's studies was that these s

Human Resources committee  I'd be happy to begin. In my view, these students are under the same pressures as other students. A number of barriers keep them from completing their studies. The biggest one, I would say, is students being underprepared. It goes well beyond just being academically unprepared

Human Resources committee  I have. I have four children and I've spoken to the youngest one. I was a teacher here in Ottawa, out in Orleans, at St. Matthew High School, and in that role never once did I have a conversation with students about what they wanted to do. In my mind, having gone through a univ

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Can you just confirm my time limit? Is it up to 10 minutes?

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to share some of my thoughts with the group. This is certainly an important and timely topic for the Canadian college and polytechnic group. This topic is new, and not just for Canada: we're seeing it in the Richard report in the U.K. and w