Trades Shortages and Unemployment Rates
The BC government has announced $75 million in funding for trades training programs for the next year. This is because: “Our goal with the Skills for Jobs...
Tag: Education
Education and the Aboriginal wage gap
The National Post had an article this morning titled “Government stumped as report shows aboriginal wage gap widening, unemployment growing” The fed...
An Ideal First Year?
I think a lot about what students need to know to be successful. And more and more I feel that the old elective model does a huge disservice to first year stud...
Disrupting Higher Education?
Talking about the university system as if it’s doomed is fairly common. Here’s an article from three years ago outlining some common metaphors about...
Remembering Suzanne
April 4th 2007 Suzanne Klerks passed away. I met her in 2002 when she taught my first year writing course at UCFV. Near the end of the semester I asked for a on...