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Education
Learning for what comes next
University partnerships, oil sands know-how and corridor trades, taught here.
Idea for assessment, not an approved project
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The problem
What residents describe today.
Students often leave the region to finish a degree, and some do not come back.
New roads and new jobs need trained people who live here.
Evidence
Students who leave to finish a degree is a concern people raise. How many leave and how many return has not been measured here.
The idea
An approach to assess.
- University partnerships so students can finish a degree at home.
- Programs built on the region's oil sands expertise.
- Trades for logistics, heavy equipment and road work.
- Health careers for the nurses and technicians the hospital needs.
- Surveys that show which programs students and employers want.
Before anything happens
What this idea still needs.
- Tarrabin Consulting's role
- Tarrabin Consulting wrote this idea and can advise on it. We do not run these services and we hold no approval to build them. Any decision belongs to the people and organizations responsible.
- Decisions needed
- Which programs are worth adding, with which institutions, and how employers would take part.
- Next step to test it
- Survey students and employers on the programs they want.
- Communities
- Where an idea touches First Nations or Métis communities, those communities decide. Nothing goes ahead without their written mandate, and the Crown's duty to consult stays with the Crown.
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Your opinion
Three questions. Under a minute.
Is this a problem for you, and would this idea help? Your answers are counted with everyone else's.
