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Speeding up the response
of colleges and institutes
to labour market information
Presentation to the National LMI Forum
By Paul Brennan
Halifax, November 2005
Association of Canadian Community Colleges
L’Association des collèges communautaires du Canada
Comment accélérer la réaction du réseau collégial à l’information sur
le marché du travail
Présentation au Forum national sur l’IMT
Paul Brennan
Novembre, 2005
What is the ACCC?
• The voluntary national association of Canada’s 150 public colleges, institutes of technology, cégeps and university colleges
• With main mandates of :– Making the public policy positions and vast
resources of colleges known broadly;– Bringing colleges together to improve each
others’ capacity to do better and innovate;– Facilitating the development of partnerships
with all groups working on common issues.
Our Colleges & Institutes
• In all 10 provinces and 3 territories responsible for covering all of Canada
• Present in 900 communities with a campus or learning centre
• 60,000 instructors, instructional design specialists, administrators and staff
• 900,000 full-time and 1.5 million part-time learners• Certificates, Trades Training, Diplomas, Applied
Degrees, Post-Grad Diplomas, Adult Education and Contract Training for the existing labour force.
Our Colleges & Institutes
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The Canadian E&T Context
• Decentralized E&T responsibility;
• Diverse systems of PSE education and training responsive to their local realities;
• Provincial/Territorial program standards;
• Local Employer Program Advisory Committees;
Local/Provincial LMI and signals are there and are a strength of our system!
The Canadian Challenge
• A much more mobile workforce and student population;
• The need for national, if not international, standards & LMI to be fully relevant;
• The need to recognize competencies of the existing workforce against some norm that allows them to be lifelong learners;
• The imperative of recognizing credentials and competencies of immigrants to ??
The demands of learners
• Colleges are mandated to focus on the employability and skills of their learners;
• Learners have no patience with repeating learning they already know;
• They expect to be taught to national industry standards (lawsuits rising) for existing jobs (KPI measurements);
• But institutions always tend to feel that what they are doing is all unique and different.
National Sector Councils
• Created to undertake national LM studies, develop national standards, produce sector specific career information tools;
• Equivalent to local Program Advisory Committees and to Provincial/Territorial sectoral and standards committees;
How should the colleges respond ?
ACCC Affinity Groups
Groups of college administrators, faculty, staff or students involved in similar functions or sectors (Aviation, Mining, Child Care,…);
• Listserv/Intranet allowing communication, exchanges within and coordinated interactions with the sector councils;
• A Coordinating Committee, F2F meetings of the CC and the entire group once/year
- Now have 50+ AGs with 7,000+ members!
Affinity Groups & LMI-Career Info
• Informatics (SHRC): LM study based on expanded NOCs (3 to 25) showing us need for more essential employability skills;
• Railways (RAC): How many workers needed in 4 main jobs per year per region;
• Arts & Culture: The need for more training on how to manage your career;
• Mining: The crucial shortages coming;
• Wood, Plastics, IMR: Keep programs open!
Standards with Diversity!
Institutional Pedagogy & Brand
Local/Provincial LMI & Competencies
National LMI & Common Core Competencies
Diversité avec des normes!
Pédagogie et approches institutionelles
Compétences et IMT locales/provinciales
IMT nationale et Compétences communes
Benefits of Collaboration
• Growing interest in the Trades;
• Start up of Health Informatics Programs;
• Start up of diverse Leadership Learning opportunities for Voluntary-Community sect.
• Avoid closure of IT, Wood, IMR, Plastics and other sector programs;
• Avoid start up of programs not needed;
• Avoid duplication of costly competency analysis and learning outcomes devel..
Lessons Learned
• LMI & Career Info have to be interpreted, communicated and discussed people-to-people, not just on a web site;
• Various local, provincial/territorial and national efforts have to be coordinated or are sending confusing mixed messages;
• Regular « good-enough » forward-looking LMI is better than late statistically valid LMI looking back (Speed and Relevancy)
Example of the Tourism HRC
• Board and Committees made up of both national associations and provincial TECs;
• Yearly F2F Conference with top-notch speakers (nuanced demographics), youth speakers, case studies;
• Meetings of college/university educators via the ACCC Affinity Group (85 institutions)
• Action on Career Info, Mobility, Dual certification, FCR and Individual National Corporate Needs.
Unanticipated Benefits
• Greater understanding and acceptance between regions and institutions;
• Networks develop into learning opportunities & communities of practice;
• Innovation thrives, because innovation comes from comparing diverse responses to reasonably similar challenges (studies);
Can have national LMI-Career Info efforts that are adapted locally & provincially.
Usefullness of ACCC
• Use us when wanting to distribute relevant LMI or Career Info products;
• Use us when you want the college perspective on a LM study or career info product (We have a Career Info AG)
• Use us when you need to get similar training done in different parts of the country.
Contact me at pbrennan@accc.ca
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