Show entries from: 2011 returned 171 result(s).
Mainframe skill shortage becoming serious financial risk
Published: 28/11/2011 3:59:00 PM - Author: none'Seven in 10 businesses are now seriously concerned about the financial and operational impact of the worsening mainframe skills shortage.
As mainframe experts continue to retire in their droves, a large survey of chief information officers has revealed that concerns are beginning to reach the level of the chief executive...'
Students find career options
Published: 28/11/2011 3:50:00 PM - Author: none'A group of First Nation high school students learned about future career options at the Aboriginal Workforce Resource conference...'
Celebrating an engaged workforce
Published: 28/11/2011 3:39:00 PM - Author: noneThis video celebrates an engaged workforce. This is an excellent showcase of diversity of career destinations in nuclear power generation.
Editorial: Education for real life
Published: 28/11/2011 3:32:00 PM - Author: none'...No one is against financial literacy, but the challenge has been to do something about it. The best place to start is in our schools. Not everything a student studies in school is immediately applicable to real life. Teaching them how to manage their money is. It's important that we do it, and do it right. Financial literacy is a life skill that can benefit students long after they have forgotten their algebra...'
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Editorial+Education+real+life/5770490/story.html#ixzz1f2A2p9Ed
Mining industry faces labour crunch, volatility, high costs: Deloitte
Published: 27/11/2011 7:22:00 PM - Author: none'...Glenn Ives, Deloitte Canada's Americas mining leader, said demographics are at the heart of the problem.
"There is a 20-year gap in the mining industry. If you think about it, mining was not that great an industry to join in the 80s and the 90s, and so there weren't a lot of new graduates joining the mining industry in that time frame," he said in an interview...'
Fear of Finance-Financial Literacy and Planning for Postsecondary Education
Published: 27/11/2011 6:54:00 PM - Author: none'The conference brought together leading researchers discussing their work in educational financial literacy and innovators sharing their approaches to improving financial literacy.
If you missed the conference or want to share what you learned, you can access session summaries, presentations and videos (below), as well as the program and speaker biographies...'
Ontario College of Trades battle heats up
Published: 27/11/2011 6:48:00 PM - Author: none'Proponents pushing to kill off the Ontario College of Trades aren’t backing down but the government seems intent on holding its ground.
The issue surfaced during the first Question Period at Queen’s Park at the opening bell.
Randy Hillier, Progressive Conservative critic for labour, said the coalition of Ontario construction employers, which represents some of the largest trade associations in Ontario, are warning the College of Trades will raise taxes and kill jobs...'
Laurel Broten Speaks to the People for Education ConferenceLaurel Broten Speaks to the People for Education Conference
Published: 26/11/2011 5:53:00 PM - Author: noneThe new Minister of Education opened the 2011 People for Education conference. It was her inaugural speech in the new portfolio.
Ontario College of Trades chairman Ron Johnson cites skills shortage
Published: 26/11/2011 5:37:00 PM - Author: none'The Ontario College of Trades has taken another step forward in electing Ron Johnson, Interior Systems Contractors Association of Ontario (ISCA) deputy director , as the new chair of its board of governors.
Johnson sees the College of Trades as a regulatory body for the trades, but also playing an active role in promoting trades careers to young people...'
Ontario politicians to debate College of Trades
Published: 26/11/2011 5:36:00 PM - Author: none'Randy Hillier, Ontario Progressive Conservative Critic for Labour, challenged the Liberals to back down from implementing the College of Trades during the first Question Period of the Ontario Legislature today. Hillier said the collation of Ontario construction employers, which represents some of the largest trade associations in Ontario, has said the College of Trades will raise taxes and kill jobs...'