History And The Sequence Of Events Leading Up To Today’s Challenges.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION IN CANADA
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In 1960, the federal government again intervened in vocational education by introducing the Technical and Vocational Training Assistance Act (1960), which continued the program established by the Vocational Training Coordination Act and expanded it to include the preparation of technical-vocational teachers. Although the federal government’s funding priorities induced the “provinces to expand opportunistically in the direction of federal support” (Weiermair, 1984, p. 15), this funding was not used very efficiently for training highly skilled workers. Further-more, although federal aid amounted to 75% in some programs, poorer provinces lacking a revenue surplus or in debt could not always participate because they were unable to match the federal funding. Therefore, benefits accrued to richer provinces or to those whose priorities matched Ottawa’s
(Johnson, 1968).
As abruptly as Ottawa had entered vocational training, it left—without consulting the provinces. At a federal-provincial conference in October 1966, the federal government announced it would withdraw from the field of vocational education to enter that of adult occupational training and retraining, and to increase its “assistance to universities”. Federal officials argued previous programs had distorted educational services by encouraging provincial governments to develop only programs whose costs Ottawa would share and to neglect others financed solely out of provincial coffers. Distinguishing between short-term retraining, for which federal authorities should have responsibility, and long-term vocational preparation, a provincial matter, the federal government launched the Adult Occupational Training Act.
Don’t get me wrong but the two paragraphs above and 60 years later along with my own personal research of 25+ years of Government Rhetoric opens a great deal of thought in today’s world of events? However, I am all about advocating for change and the opportunities in helping Canadians, all Canadians in achieving greater opportunities of choice within this “New Private Industry Based Non-Traditional Vocational Technical Skills Training & Educational College/University Development”. Where you will “Earn your Learn” of ones intended goals directly from start to finish without any of today’s Pre-Leashed programs offered by our traditional institutions. Where one will achieve their career through our unique No Holds Barred “Work, Earn, Learn”, programs, Example; Reform of Vocational Education and Training. The dual system of vocational education and training is worldwide renowned and essentially still provides all young people with an opportunity to enter their skill employment and thereby taking responsibility for their life. At the same time, the system secures future skilled labour for the industry and thus contributes decisively to competitiveness and prosperity. Note; This New College Development will develop Skilled Trades in 26 to 28 months, this time frame can and will develop a Dual Skilled Trades programs that would essentially take 4 to 5 years in the same time as one traditionally trained. Creating a “Safe, Save, and Specialize” campus environment, engaging in our “Focused, Fitness, and Financial” abilities to attract and retain Canadians through to completion. Secondly, I would like to ensure Canadians that the “Education” being delivered here will accelerate rapidly to equally or exceed beyond that of our existing Polytechnic Colleges and Universities with a more practical real world approach, where we will achieve recruitment and retention of highly qualified faculty from across the county or abroad if need be. Entertaining the term “Competitor” as stated by a local Polytechnic College as they showed me the door. Must have been the term of a “Private Competitive Innovative Institutional Solution” addressing humbly and directly the required skills training and educational opportunities that Canadians need. In addition to this development and considering the past 4 years. With know surprise that we will be “First” if not the only institution to introduce as part of everyone's curriculum throughout their stay here where they will have a complete understanding of our countries “Constitution, and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms That Our Nation Was Founded Upon”. Our country by design is a Socialist/Capitalist country where all Canadians and Industry can and should reap the benefits in supporting our economic growth.
Academic Politics is Ruthless? Becoming a competitor within their “Golden Grail” of opportunities creating a Paradigm Shift certainly would make them weak at the knees and on the defensive. Note; Laurentian (French) University Feb.1, 2021 goes into Chapter #11 CCAA a ground breaking Canadian process with great efforts in achieving the forensics of dotting the “I”s and crossing the “T”s making it quicker and easier for a possible “Domino Effect” my personal view point? With the quality of education being questioned today and perhaps intentionally being pushed way down with higher costs and increasing student debt, leads to an old saying, you can only throw so much money at a dead horse before you realize it is dead? Meaning, if it wasn’t for the International students $$$ where would they be? Note; In an up date from what was said now in 2024 the federal government closed the Loophole where know other College or University can engage in this process. And how convenient the Boasting from one of our Golden Grail institutions about their $252 million surplus they made from the international students? So much for domestic Canadians?
Privatized Education mostly for higher income people that can pay for such, poor people have a more difficult time to get good education and worse for those of the inter cities. Perhaps it is time for a more Capitalistic system that builds a Nation not Destroys it by putting people first bringing the scale back to an even Capitalist/Socialist Nation otherwise we may end up like Venezuela with all the corrupt shenanigans we have been witnessing over the past 3 years. (Once again these are my speculated thoughts in our interesting world of events). This New Private Industry Based Non-Traditional Vocational Technical College/University development would build upon greater opportunities for all Canadians, the Poor, Inter Cities, Indigenous etc. Intelligence does not come from how much money you have, it is the opportunities that presents itself that creates the intelligence, applied within and instilled in this foundational process of practice based knowledge.
Time for a Change Canada
GLOBE & MAIL / HARRIS GIVES UNIVERSITIES ANOTHER TEST – FAVORS WERE ALSO GRANTED TO UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES THAT COMBINED FORCES BY ESTABLISHING JOINT DEGREES – Diplomas that heavily emphasized market competitive skills. The premier is committed to introducing private universities to Ontario. The board that will examine applications for charters is slated to begin its work before the end of the year. By 2002 or 2003 the first private universities will have arrived and the competition for students will be fierce. And where is all this fierce Competition? Note; However, this New Institutional development has the ability to create the fierce anticipated competition required in support of the Canadian people. Where both the Blue Color & White Color workers will walk the Hallways and Aisle-ways together.
This first link supports my title.
This next link requires both countries in the development of the people to succeed.
Hot off the press, what puzzles me is considering his father stated that we will get them from abroad, and now a watered down process with no real check upon who enters and I did not think we were to become a welfare state? "Corrupt Trickery"?
Interesting, the link below stating the need of Capitalism, and a reflection of how much education has deteriorated one would almost think it was planned?
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History tells the story?
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Interesting prediction below considering our world today, and our crystal ball leadership.
Economic Development; The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada observed that no labour growth is expected from 2016 to 2025. (Canadian Business Magazine, March 14-27 /05). "A well orchestrated plan 17 years later?"
Interesting how Investors sit on the side lines with so much $$ and do so little, like this New College/University/Institutional development. "I guess they have to get permission"?
2018 - Media Planet; Unionized labour; new generation of skilled trades workers in demand in Ontario? And to top all this off Canada's biggest investors have a Stunning $1 Trillion Dollars sitting on the sidelines, waiting to be put to work?
Interesting, and not difficult to see the transition taking place in front of our eyes.
CFIB- Canadian Federation of Independent Business: November 28, 2018. Over $1.5 Trillion in business assets will be in play over the next decade, as nearly three quarters (72%) of small to medium sized businesses intend to exit their business, according to a new survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. These often family-run businesses make-up almost half of the Canadian economy, and the changes could disrupt two million jobs across the country, the CFIB says. "We have Colleges & Universities loaded up with International students, and we have an aggressive immigration (Invasion) plan with 430 thousand last year and many small businesses being taken over by?" Interesting is it not?
Opinion: We new this 25+ years ago as stated, 1997 “Private Sector Schools Should Join Forces To Fight Youth Joblessness” but then the world of technology compromised those thoughts among everything else? Today requires so much more to stimulate the concerns and the opportunities that Canadians Need, Industry Needs, and Our Economy Needs. Young Men & Women in Canada, and our Indigenous Communities having the highest demographics of youth in Canada all looking for inspiring meaningful opportunities when presented to them. But yet government would rather invest in Immigration efforts to gain votes and compromise our country with individuals that do not understand the culture and support our values. Compromising thoughts certainly come to mind?
These next two articles expresses this gentleman's vision; Ives Landry Foundation 1998 of the late Chairman, President and CEO of Chrysler Canada Ltd
AD&P February 2005: Four years into a bachelor's program, possibly another couple in graduate or professional school, and suddenly you’re on the fast track to a fulfilling a profitable career. This is the general thinking, but most university BA and B.Sc. graduates often find themselves saddled with thousands of dollars in cumbersome student debt. Students learning trades or apprentices studying as electrician, millwrights or metalworkers, however, will most likely earn tidy incomes as skilled trades upon graduation. More importantly, these trade’s people will be a hot commodity in the Canadian labour market. Their skills will be in high demand because of Canada’s aging industrial workforce. Canada’s industry will need 400,000 new workers within the next 10 years to replace retiring industrial trades people. This is a potential nightmare for companies that require a skilled workforce to run, oversee and maintain their operations. The Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association (APMA) has spoken out on the issue. Comprised of four-big Canadian manufacturers, says the skilled trades shortage is a grave threat facing the automotive industry. "Automotive parts manufacturers will be unable to fill 42% of the skilled trades through 2007,” says APMA’s President Gerry Fedchum. “The biggest problem is getting employers to train” says Rob Easto, senior manager of program development and standards, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (OMTCU). Part of the problem is that some companies cut back on apprenticeship programs and training in the 1990s. None of the clients I’ve worked with have apprenticeship programs. It has to do with the “leaning” out by industry, when organizations stripped themselves to the bone, says Alistair Varley, a maintenance specialist with Toronto business consultancy EMA Inc. Lots of firms did away with their apprenticeship programs. It’s hard to add them back into corporate budgets. I think it started when the government stopped sponsoring apprentices. Companies also held back on apprentices because they weren’t getting any money back from the government. Pending legislation by the Ontario government may soon provide a fiscal incentive for companies to start hiring apprentices again. When the bill is passed, OMTCUs Esatro says the province will provide up to $5,000 a year in tax rebates per apprentice for up to three years. This is roughly the amount of time it takes to train an apprentice. Besides the expense involved in training someone for three years, which can add up to $250,000 over the life of the apprenticeship, there’s also the lost productivity of ticketed staff that are actually doing most of the training. “Unless you’re looking at training as a long-term investment, then many companies just see it as an annoyance,” he says. It’s costing them to train people and they require attention from fully skilled workers whose productivity also goes down. While these fears are certainly relevant, industry has to look at the situation from the perspective of providing new talent to the general labour pool. “It’s really a mass balance in industry.”
Between these two articles if it wasn't for all the planned off-shoring of our manufacturing sector things would be different today? This New Proposed College/University Development holds No excuses only solutions.
AD&P February 2005: are you experienced? There is a non-trivial problem that the U.S based auto industry is going to be facing (And to some extent already is getting smacked in the jaw), and it is not overcapacity, outsourcing of jobs, or declining sales although there are all of those. The problem that the auto industry leaders will come up against is the fact that because of both downsizing and demographics there will be a death of experienced people at all levels of the organizations. They insist that actual experience is vital for learning. They write, “Deep smarts constitute practice based wisdom”. Experience defines us professionally especially in those fields in which practice is critical than book learning. One of the reasons so many Internet start-ups failed was that their founders had little entrepreneurial or managerial experience to match their technological deep smarts. These people had “A”s in technology but little in hands on experience. Not all failed. One of the reasons why some of the companies succeeded was because there were coaches who had experience who worked with the founders. For one thing, the authors point out that the people need to practice their area of expertise. Most evidence suggests that it takes about ten years of concentrated study and practice to become expert (as opposed to merely competent). Ten years! What’s more, there needs to be desire: “there is strong evidence that extrinsic forces-rewards, threats, and the like – may induce people to work hard, but do not promote learning or creativity nearly as much as intrinsic motivation from wanting to learn. So, what is to be done? Executives who identify that their ranks of experienced managers will be collecting pensions in the not too distant future need to start working with the less experienced. Because we really do have the responsibility to ensure that those deep smarts that are essential to our organization are not lost. In automotive, plenty of those smarts have already walked out the door. Unless efforts are undertaken to help pass on the intelligence that remains to the following generation of managers and executives, then the external forces of the market will likely overwhelm the capabilities of the remaining internals.
And where are we on this today?
(Canadian Business Magazine, Mar. 14-17/05, 'Changing our Destiny') Quote: First Nations’ fertility rates are higher than the rest of the countries. As a result, the populations of both First Nation and non-reserve Aboriginal Peoples are much younger that other Canadians. Nearly half of that community is under the age of 25 compared with nearly a third of the non-aboriginal population. Clearly, Canadians have a lot to do to bring aboriginal people into the mainstream of society, labour market necessities should give this issue; heightened importance. Unfortunately, to date 9/22/23 it does not seem to be working?
You can talk strategies all day long, it is only when you apply a solution things change.
Stephen Deloitte, a Toronto-based partner at Deloitte Consulting LLP. (Globe & Mail, Mar.23/05, "War for talent requires new strategies') Quote: Few organizations are developing the next generation to take over from aging boomers. But when the crunch comes, these companies will find they cannot just poach the talent they need from the competition. “By Develop”, we mean providing the “real-life learning” employees needed to master a job. “By Deploy” we mean working with key individuals to identify their deep-rooted skills, interests and knowledge to find their best fit in the organization.
The printing press never stops?
Globe & Mail, June 23/04, The Ontario government is spending $21 million on a group of programs designed to foster the growth of apprenticeship training. The money will go to three existing funds established to expand apprenticeship opportunities, Training, Colleges, Universities. Flexibility, relevant and meets industries highest standards. The government is calling for proposals from community colleges and other training institutions.
Below, $12 Billion and full of laughter and rhetoric, one thing for sure our government knows how to print it and it would be useless to ask for any type accountability. Their 20+ year plan is what we are witnessing today?
CANADIAN MACHINERY AND METAL FORMING MAGAZINE JAN/FEB/O3- $12 BILLION BOOST FOR APPRENTICESHIPS – The money will be split between skills/competences Canada (SKC) a national non-profit group that promotes skilled trades and technical careers as a career option, for Canadian youth, and the Canadian apprenticeship forum. Completely Ironic.
The next two articles are definitely Blurring full of Rhetoric and the Monopoly still exists?
GLOBE & MAIL SEPT.15/03 – LINES BLURRING FOR UNIVERSITIES COLLEGES
The rub is that the doers need to also be thinkers and vice-versa – Thus, Canadian universities now covet the applied skills traditionally produced by colleges seek to equip students with boarder cognitive skills for a workplace of changing demands. There is a bewildering; array of choices today all saying “Degree”, says David Marshall, President of Calgary’s Mount Royal College, which has about 20 applied degree programs. Marshall also said, “in part because of a spike in demand for higher education that couldn’t be supplied by Canadian universities alone”. Advanced intellectual requirements for the workplace and “creeping credentialism” are also factors he identified. College-specific education is going to be required for 58 per cent of the new jobs in Nova Scotia over the next five years, as opposed to 18 per cent requiring university specific education, according to a Human Resources Development Canada study in the region.
“Colleges and Universities had a virtual monopoly on post-secondary education, “he says. “We don’t anymore and you know what? That’s a good thing. It does not mean these institutions are dying”. “Between 1990 and 2001 in Canada, over 1.1 million jobs were created requiring university education,” says Robert Ciroux President of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada in Ottawa. Meanwhile, the rising, value of a diverse education doesn’t yet preclude an older notion of “credential creep,” the idea that every work function has simply layered on more educational demands. Higher in-come families are four times more likely to use this than low-in-come families. Education tax credits aren’t much help to students or parents with low incomes. And in most provinces students are not able to borrow their full education costs. The recent Throne Speech hinted that the March 23 budget might contain further measures to assist students and encourage their parents to save. Good: We need to shift our thinking, so that saving for education gets as much attention as saving for retirement. The United Kingdom is introducing a new system whereby students can borrow fully against university costs, and repayment after graduation is tied to income earned. There are also offering lower-income families. We need a comprehensive plan, formulated together by the federal and provincial governments, students, the private sector and the education institutions. Canadians’ future standard of living depends on it.
GLOBE & MAIL AUG. 26/2003 – UNIVERSITIES IN PERIAL OF RUNNIN AGROUND – Tricky business, some schools are in better financial shape than others, in large part because of difference in levels of provincial support. The biggest challenge for Canada’s Universities however is stopping the deterioration and perhaps improving the quality of undergraduate education. No, the universities are grappling with a huge backlog of deferred maintenance (even while they construct new buildings), growing class sized and a series of pressures that emphasize faulty research over teaching, especially to undergraduates. But there has been multibillion dollar investment by the Federal Government in university research. The universities main challenge lies with the undergraduates. They’re paying more for their education in most provinces, but universities would be hard-pressed to argue possibly that students are getting more for there money. Funding budget the lifeline of university financing, hasn’t kept pace with the cost of university education. Research can help but doesn’t drive excellence in undergraduate teaching. A selected handful of Canadian universities have thought privately how to escape the tyranny of low base-budget increases from government by imagining them selves as a “fully private institutions” such as exist in the United States. Those who have toyed with the idea have all breaking away from the other universities and from Provincial Governments. So the universities are stuck. They have persuaded some provinces to allow graduate and professional fees to rise. But these measures cannon make-up for limited base-budget increases, fee freezes, and governments, to be stuck. The worry about access, which includes them to keep fee increases down. More important, the health-care is rising faster than any other component. Health care is literally squeezing every other government-financed program. More voters worry about health care than universities. With universities and governments both stuck, something has to suffer. But in a depressing number of cases-is the quality of under-graduates education.
Globe & Mail - Date 1999 - Universities Becoming Money Machines – This is a major challenge from 20 to 30 years ago when the pursuit of knowledge and education were the main item on the agenda. They are equipped to file patents, to develop licensing arrangements, to provide real-state, for development and to help establish new companies all with the eyes on the money. We are witnessing a race to acquire intellectual property rights that will generate money. It is getting out of hand, and other important values are being neglected both at the individual staff level, where professors are distracted from research and teaching by the lure of money, and at the institutional level where the captains of the corporate world are pursued and coddled with great affection than our leading academics. But today most of the money comes from the private sector. Governments encouraged that shift, partly by offering tax incentives for investments in research and development partly by expanding the scope of intellectual property rights. Note: and now you understand why our education system has a problem?
I am sure the students and parents would get a laugh out of this one.
2002 - Colleges in Trouble - A deepening crisis in the system is about to get worse. The Report Warns, student costs rose by 69%, "Extremely Onerous Burdens" on students, the report concludes, the research suggests families and students are being forced to take on massive debt to make it happen.
Serious stakeholders, to acknowledge that this is a National Priority. "HELLO", are their any Stakeholders in the house????? Rhetoric will either make you laugh or cry?
2001 - Adult Training Program would be expensive and may prompt federal-provincial struggle - Faced with a looming national crisis that threatens to strangle the country's growth and living standards within a few decades. Giving incentives to private industry to make employee training a top priority. While government has ruled out creating its own training programs, it is seeking ways to give incentives to private industry to do more. Sector councils that bring together employers, unions, and community colleges to identify skills shortages and develop curricula and training programs cover only 25 industry groups so far. If we don't get all the stakeholders in the same place and begin to acknowledge that this is a national priority, across jurisdictions and across sectors we are not going to make any headway. Note; a few decades brings us to 2030? Interesting
Work Earn Learn are the 3 elements of success.
2000 - Retooling Your Workers - Training - A structured on the job system will mean less time in the classroom and more time on the equipment getting hands-on experience and individual tutoring. It means less time spent on costly trial-and-error learning and more time spent on relevant practice. The thrust here is to approach "Training" as part of a continuous improvement. Training practices do not have to centralized; they just need to be systematized. A systematic approach to job training will ensure that the right skills get to the right people at the right time. Note; And here we are 23 years later with an institutional development with systematic approach that does exist.
They are playing our song a new competitive entry? That Monopoly word came up again? And the Rhetoric continues down the road of "BS".
2000 - Ontario Sets the Stage for Private Universities - Ontario government sets the stage yesterday for the arrival of Private Universities which could begin accepting applications as soon as the fall of 2002. The controversial move to end the monopoly by public institutions on granting degrees is part of the Post Secondary Education - Choice of Excellence Act, which the Legislature passed yesterday.
Know doubt about it they are all about the money$$$$$$$$$$$ today. Not You?
1999 - Universities becoming money machines - This is a major change from 20 to 30 years ago when the pursuit of knowledge and education of students were the main items on the agenda. They are equipped to file for patents, to develop licensing arrangements, to provide real estate for development, and to help establish new companies, all with the eye on the money?
Yes, and there would be NO unnecessary programs and irrelevant research grants at this new institutional development.
1999 - Private Universities would be a Credit - For the most part, valuable university funds are being spent on unnecessary programs and irrelevant research grants. by letting some students pay high tuition fees for formal education if desired, their would be more money in the total education pool for struggling public universities. It is high time for Canadians to stop fearing the proposed threat of Private Universities. Reducing the influence of government controls on our education system and increase freedom of choice in the education marketplace.
1998 - The Knowledge Worker - Why do we put people through apprenticeship programs if not to develop their knowledge? Why do we demand Technical Training in CAD design if not to employ someone with that knowledge? The world is competing for knowledge workers everywhere. They are, and everybody needs them faster then the system can produce them. Work is defined based upon the skills required. We are in a time of great social transformation, larger then the industrial revolution, moving up to what some call the knowledge economy. "Or is it the Miss-information/Dis-information economy?
Are you awake yet Canada
1998 - Wake Up Call - The Colleges and Universities seem to have convinced the public that everybody should go to College. The sophistication of knowledge that a Skilled Tradesman must acquire is far above that was required in the past. Much of the Training approaches, or equals, college levels. A well-designed four year co-op program that gives the student the academic and hands on training required should result in an Associate Degree in Skilled Trades. Note; Ironic, they are now convincing everyone to get a Trade while they load up the Colleges and Universities with International student?
History always tells the real story of how money (Greed) gets in the way of what's good for the people?
1997 – FORGING NEW AND FRUITFUL LINKS WITH EDUCATION – MARKET FORCES ARE CHANGING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND INSTITUTIONS – The prime objective of companies is to make money. And for universities, the challenge will be first to recognize that the technical and business issues that organizations face are challenging problems and, consequently, require an analysis of existing resources and services to ensure they offer the level of education, expertise and research required to meet the specific needs of manufacturers. Opportunities for university research in many disciplines including the sciences, mathematics, engineering, commerce and business management, education and economics. University research will play a key role in enabling companies to develop products, enter new markets, improve existing products and processes, keep pace with technological change, reorganize and integrate business systems and adopt best business practices. Universities are also an information reservoir and companies expect to draw on their knowledge and expertise, skilled personnel, and have access to advanced technologies and equipment. For companies, the direct value of research is determined by its application to solving technical and business problems, and by an organization’s ability to commercialize and make money from these applications. The research needs of individual manufacturers depend on the nature of the problems they face, the quality and scope of their in-house resources as well as their own technical, research and development capabilities. And many companies rely on universities for expertise and knowledge applicable to specific technical, production and business problems or count on these institutions as a source of highly skilled personnel or as a facility for upgrading the skills of current employees.
The confusion today started with "Windows 95", I thought I just read this not 20 years ago?
1997 - Information Flow - Communication and information technologies-both hardware and software are another set of technologies revolutionizing manufacturing systems and organizations. And they are instrumental in implementing systems of statistical quality control, automated processing and fabrication, computer integrated design and manufacturing, concurrent engineering where design and engineering functions are integrated, and intelligent manufacturing systems where machines learn and configure themselves on the basis of artificial intelligence.
I laughed so hard "Adopt What" To Meet The Changing Needs".
1996 - Industry Canada Needs A Strong Infrastructure - Manufacturing Success Relies On Cost-Effective And Efficient services. Adopt To meet Changing Needs - Canada has always placed strong emphasis on a well developed infrastructure. Privatization is one avenue worth exploring, but only if costs are lowered and service quality is enhanced. For operations that count on innovation and new market development to achieve greater cost effectiveness.
The foundation still exists?
1993 Common Core Curriculum Improves Training Flexibility; Those common elements comprise basic machining principals including reading of blue prints or engineering drawings, occupational calculation, math, metallurgy, using reference charts and learning about speeds and feeds metrology on basic introduction to milling machines, lathes and saws. You have to have these basic machining principles to do anything on precision machining.
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