Given this perplexing picture, how can our country’s skills shortage be alleviated? The answer to that question is not more taxpayer dollars. Education is primarily a provincial responsibility and most provinces are already running unsustainably high deficits. The federal government is tightening spending as it strives to eliminate its deficit. So the only place the funds can come from is existing education budgets.
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Universities doing little to solve Canada’s “jobs without skills” problem
on April 22nd, 2013
The Plight of the Overeducated Worker
The problem of over-qualified workers isn’t new, nor is it unique to Canada – it’s widespread across the developed world. Some recent analysis from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sheds light on the problem.