The thousands of students who attend Alberta’s post-secondary institutions every year are used to their work being graded. But now, thanks to a new policy announced by the provincial government, the people running those universities and colleges will be getting their own report cards.
For a government that’s heavily invested in reducing so-called “red tape,” implementing a model that effectively wraps the province’s colleges and universities in it is a curious choice. And for a political movement that instinctively decries governments that “pick winners,” it’s odd to see them implement education policy that encourages post-secondary institutions to do that with their own programs.
And yet, the last 10 years show exactly why post-secondary institutions should steer clear of trying to predict labour market outcomes. By the time students who started studying geology or petroleum engineering at the beginning of the decade finally tossed their mortarboards into the air, the world they graduated into was fundamentally different from the one they had been expecting.
They’re skills that Stewart Butterfield, the founder and CEO of Slack, has put to great use. He took his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Victoria and parlayed it into a master’s degree before going on to create a bunch of tech companies that eventually culminated, almost by accident, with Slack, the hugely popular team-messaging app. He didn’t get educated as a computer programmer, and he didn’t go to school to get an MBA.
Funny, they seem to have lots of jobs everywhere outside of Canaduh. WEXIT
See what happens when a Liberal government elected in Toronto and Quebec deliberately destroys an industry and provincial economy just to keep power in Quebec
I had to check to make that this was the real Twitter and not a parody. Didn’t think it was possible you could be so incredibly clueless.
Call the plumber. Someone hooked the sewage line to this Fawcett. It only produces shit.
Those people would still have jobs if pipelines were built.
It almost like you believe your own lies MacLeans. Must have been saying it louder and often.
The bust is largely self inflicted
The jobs shifted south where they are trying to grow their economy, not blow it up. And unlike Liberal Arts majors, these profession's graduates are not asking if we want supersize our meal.
How could you possibly predict when a federal gov would actually try and legislate a complete sector out of business?
Max Fawcett is an idiot.
The Transmountain gone be bigger with the money Trudeau gave for it. More pollution with sands of Alberta, Trudeau is not green.
10 years ago, Alberta had a place in Canada and wasn’t being shoved out. See what happens when idiots are elected to the federal government?
So what would happen to Canada's left wing media if it wasn't subsidized by the government?
Universities should have to do stats on grad employment etc. I know the u of a doesnt. They can promise all the careers they want with their degrees that way...
See what happens when elitist activists take over government?
All because of JustinTrudeau and the liberal_party cdnpoli
And the role of Federal government policy?
This has to be one of the most tone deaf and ironic tweets ever. Take a look in the mirror.
your magazine requires massive government bailouts to keep the lights on. tell us again about boom and bust
10 years ago Canada wasn't blockading Alberta.
Does this explain why there are so many useless so-called journalists? Was it the $500 million in funding?
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Basing your entire provincial economy on a boom-and-bust resource also is a very large problem.
Frustrating for many!
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