Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are four reports that we found interesting this week:
Understanding the Future of Skills: Trends and Global Policy Responses (Future Skills Centre)
This paper looks at initiatives in nine countries, highlights key projections from eight of the most important reports to date on the skills of the future and distills the effects of drivers of skills change into five key impacts that will influence the direction and form of the future of skills, and the future of work.
Canadians’ Perceptions of Post-Secondary Education, Retraining and Lifelong Learning (Colleges and Institutes Canada)
Among the survey results highlights:
- 98% of Canadians believe that access to lifelong learning at all ages is important
- 90% of respondents agree that a good education is one that gives hands-on experience to students
- 87% agree that the purpose of post-secondary education is to help people get, and keep, good jobs
Labour Force Survey, December 2019 (Statistics Canada)
Employment increased by 35,000 in December, and the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 5.6%. In the 12 months to December, employment increased by 320,000, the result of gains in full-time work.
How Much Do They Make? New Evidence on the Early Career Earnings of Canadian PostSecondary Education Graduates by Credential & Field of Study (LMIC and EPRI)
This report finds that in every field of study, women earn less than their male counterparts five years after graduating and in the vast majority of cases average gender earnings differences increase from year one to year five. It also finds that for 2010 PSE graduates, real earnings grew from $43,100 to $59,300, an increase of 8.4% per year (38% in total) from 2011 to
2015.
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