Students want to learn. Schools want to teach. Business wants workers. But how do you ensure the students end up with the skills that are in demand? Are we doing a good job of matching students to skills …and skills to jobs? This is why CBC held a forum at Algonquin College’s Waterfront Campus in Pembroke. It’s a place at the very centre of this issue. This particular campus is relatively new. It sprung up to meet a need in this area …and it’s trying to make a difference.
There are few decisions that any young person makes that are tougher than choosing a direction to launch themselves into the world of work and a career. We want to hear about the choices, the challenges, the successes and the failures. We will hear from students, teachers, administrators here …and we’d like to hear from others across Canada as well as businesses and people who have found a career and can tell us how they managed it.
