Schools need to be well connected to post-secondary education and labour market options. Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth is implementing a number of actions that will improve transitions for students between high school and post-secondary education and employment.
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Explore the potential of a school leaving employability skills credential, which would include Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition. Accomplished!
An employability skills certificate has been created. |
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Share information about school-initiated courses that assist students in career exploration and address local labour market conditions. Accomplished!
Information about school-initiated courses is shared across the province. Online registration is available.
School-initiated Courses Online Registration |
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Ensure that all secondary school students develop a portfolio of skills linked to lifelong learning and employment. Accomplished!
The Department has developed an employability skills portfolio that has been disseminated to schools. |
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Enhance articulation between secondary and post-secondary education through joint programming, the awarding of dual credits, offering challenge for credit, and increasing distance education learning opportunities, including Campus Manitoba. Accomplished!
Dual credit offerings and registration were fully implemented in 2001 - 2002 as a pilot program for three years. The results of the final evaluation indicate that the initiative has been successful. The department continues to work with school divisions on the development of online distance education courses. A community service option and a challenge for credit option were implemented in the 2002-2003 school year. |
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Enhance technical-vocational education. 
Labour market data tell us that Manitoba (like Canada generally) is already short of workers with technical and vocational skills and the shortage is projected to worsen. The department is working with secondary and post-secondary school partners to enhance technical-vocational education in the province. We need to increase its appeal and improve the way we deliver it. A multi-year initiative began in 2004. |
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Initiate research and demonstration projects.
The department is working with the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation to research the transition from high school to post-secondary education. It published the Manitoba findings from a study about how youth are currently prepared for that transition. A follow up study in 2004 will extend that information. Two proposed demonstration projects are long-term studies of how to encourage post-secondary education among student populations that typically do not continue past high school. |
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Coordinate career development activities.
The education departments are working together to facilitate and coordinate the development and maintenance of effective and sustainable programs, services and tools within a coherent framework
that Manitobans can have equal access to meet their career development needs over their learning and working lives. The following goals have been identified with the input of career
development stakeholders:
- Career Development is recognized as essential to the social and economic well-being of Manitobans.
- Manitobans have the knowledge and abilities to set and achieve career goals.
- Manitobans have access to quality resources required to make informed education, training and employment choices on an ongoing basis.
- Manitobans have the employability skills and attitudes to work and adapt effectively to the needs of the workplace.
- Stakeholders in career development have a forum to exchange information and work cooperatively.
An action plan is currently being developed to meet these goals. It is anticipated that the action plan will be reviewed by career development stakeholders in spring 2006. |
