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Based on a systematic literature review, we demonstrate that college continuing education in Quebec is poorly represented in colleges’ specialized publications and generally absent from the field of educational research, despite its importance in the field of professional and technical training. We first describe the context of adult college education and training in Quebec and demonstrate its significance as a distinct training sector. We then present findings from our exhaustive literature review. Using these results, we show that despite its role in adult education, college continuing education in Quebec remains an unexplored research area. To conclude, we present hypotheses that may explain this lack of visibility and suggest potential research avenues on a subject that merits greater consideration.
As professors grapple with new technologies in the classroom, a report from Cornell offers suggestions for best practices and policies related to generative artificial intelligence.
Virtual lectures are nice, but becoming far more interactive over the next 5-10 years should be the goal for higher ed leaders.
Higher education might still be light years from being fully swept up in the metaverse—that is, embracing and implementing the worlds of extended reality (XR)—but it is worth exploring the possibilities right now. Imagine a landscape where “metaversities” are the norm, or where virtual reality is widespread on campuses. Now, imagine what would happen to institutions that fail to embrace it.
a new $37-million agreement with Employment and Social Development Canada to expand its Career Launcher program. Over two years, more than 6,000 apprentices in one of 39 Red Seal Trades in the Construction and Manufacturing sectors will benefit from work-integrated learning experiences through Career Launcher.
This brief highlights lessons from the City Colleges of Chicago Centers of Excellence model, which has redesigned each of the system’s seven campuses as a “college-to-career center” and consolidated academic programs in high-demand industries at particular campuses.
Postsecondary institutions are charged with developing people's academic skills, technical skills and positioning them for jobs and additiona
Via Peter Mellow
In practical terms, Cégep is what comes after high school for students in Quebec, and leads either to university studies or directly to the job market. While there are two-year colleges outside of Quebec, the concept—and politics—of Cégep, the collège d’enseignement général et professionnel, may be harder to grasp for those who haven’t encountered Cégep before. You might place it in the same category as junior college, or 6th form, or Grade 13, but ultimately, Cégep really is not quite like anything else. In this paper, I explore the history of Cégep and discuss what Cégep is now, and what that means for those who teach there.
With schools closed and classes moving online, students nationwide are being forced to adapt to a new learning landscape. One challenge: standardized testing for college admissions, many of which have been canceled this spring. Although test administrators say tests will be run online by this fall, some experts worry that shift will exacerbate existing systemic inequities. Stephanie Sy reports.
At a time when parents and society are putting increased pressure on students to go to college in order to have a successful life, students’ mental health and overall readiness for college – both of which have greatly diminished in recent years – are being overlooked.
Understand how career and vocational education offers many adults an alternative education that can quickly lead to a good job.
The new technical courses, including construction and childcare, will be an alternative to A-levels.
A mere 3% and 5% of Americans say high school graduates are "very prepared" to be successful in college and the workplace, respectively. These findings reinforce a consistently negative public perception about the readiness of both high school and college graduates. And although this perception paints a rather dreary picture of the performance of our education system, Americans have very clear and consistent ideas (including across political lines) for what needs to be done to improve.
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"The labour shortage in certain key sectors of the economy is of concern to political authorities. As evidence of this, in 2021 the Minister of Higher Education mandated the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation (hereinafter Council) to examine the potential of the recognition of acquired competencies (RAC) to contribute to the qualification and requalification of individuals, resulting in the brief Recognition of Acquired Competencies at the College Level : An Avenue to Be Optimized and Promoted." -- AQPC
Over the past decade, millions of Americans without a college degree emerged from the recession in jobs that were low-wage, insecure, and lacked benefits like paid leave. We are seeing the result of these low-quality, tenuous jobs in the massive unemployment rates resulting from the shock of the pandemic. Everyone is hurting, but unemployment for someone with only a high school diploma or some college experience is almost twice that of a person with a bachelor's degree or higher.
We need a better way for people who don’t have bachelor’s degrees to access stable, well-paying jobs emerging from this economic crisis.
Fundamentals for Success in College will empower students to become successful in college. This resource focuses on study skills, note-taking, memory, time management, and digital literacy and includes a bonus chapter on personal health and wellbeing. Fundamentals for Success in College is a combination of authored content and adaptations from the following four open-source textbooks.
Today, Statistics Canada is releasing data on labour market outcomes for college and university graduates for the graduating classes of 2010 to 2018. This release includes information on the median employment income by educational qualification, field of study, gender, age group, and status of student in Canada. For the first time, this release also includes information on the median employment income of graduates 10 years after graduation. Data are available at the national, provincial and territorial levels.
The College Completion Strategy Guide provides clear policy guidance and summarizes the research on strategies to increase college completion.
One of the biggest shifts in education reform in recent years has been widening acknowledgment that the “college for all” mantra was misguided. Almost everyone now admits that college, as traditionally defined, is not going to be for everyone, and that career and technical programs and trade schools can provide sturdy on-ramps to the middle class.
The coronavirus forced a shift to virtual classes, but their continuation could be beneficial even after the pandemic ends.
Via Peter Mellow
Access the resources of over 80 teaching and learning centres in colleges and universities in Ontario and across Canada that support faculty and instructors by offering resources, tools, coaching, and training to help enhance teaching and learning strategies, assessment practices, and student interaction.
An excerpt from Education Next executive editor Michael Horn’s new book
As the free college debate continues to gain momentum in states across the country, advocates’ and policymakers’ growing success in reframing access to college as a guaranteed benefit raises the question: Should federal or state governments do more to ensure that guarantee includes access to quality job training programs more generally, and if so, how?1
Community colleges, private businesses, and distance learning all will have greater roles to play in future workforce development.
But we can’t expect higher education to eliminate inequality all by itself.
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