The next step for Ottawa: ensuring investments in new skills training pay off GlobeBusiness
The secret is out. While we’ve known that Tuesday’s federal budget is being billed as a skills budget, we can now expect it will include. This is a really good move by the federal government and may have been inspired by Singapore’s Individual Learning Accounts . There is a large and growing need for people in the Canadian work force to improve their skills to maintain employment and quality of life.
Unfortunately, there is no good way for people in Canada to determine either of those things. For ILAs to make the impact the government is aiming for, Canadians need better tools to help them make choices about what and how to learn.Competencies are the skills, knowledge and attributes required to do different tasks of a job. Competency profiles can be built for each job in the economy.
To unleash the power of ILAs, people need to know what skills and competencies they need to build, and to what level, to maintain their jobs or move between jobs. The next question is where to access learning that meets their needs in the most effective and efficient way possible. As yet, there is no way to link most of the programs and courses offered by public and private training providers to specific competencies required by employers. Also, there is no way to ensure that the providers validate the competencies of those who complete a course so that individuals and employers can be sure they actually have built that competency.
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