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@Val1Walker

CEO @BHERCanada. Great team, great members. Building opportunity through collaboration. Thankful for every day. Even the tough ones. #skills #innovation #talent

Katılım Kasım 2012
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Val Walker@Val1Walker·
"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk & acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition & not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." - Niccolo Machiavelli
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@MKMcKean @CommishAACU @BHERCanada Really hard to hear how much demand there is right now for @jason_czyz’s Institute of International Education’s refugee programs. A stat yesterday that blew my mind: average duration of a stay in refugee camps is 17 years. Just terrible. #GICBerlin23
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@mattsigelman goes on to talk about the increasing importance of core skills in an age of generative AI. BUT, the number of skills he considers “core” is going up!
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And here’s recent data that post-secondary credentials are still valuable and get people paid more. Even over time.
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Val Walker@Val1Walker·
Next session @ciee_news is a GIC Talk by @mattsigelman @BrningGlsInst. Skills & work are changing and evolving in profound ways. (Not new). But he’s got data showing that jobs are blending skills from across domains, which makes training for them way more difficult. #GICBerlin23
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Val Walker@Val1Walker·
@camcstockdale @AlexUsherHESA Our data come from *students* telling us they aren’t as concerned about having a #WIL experience when the labour market is strong. They’re the ones making direct connections between WIL and jobs. No argument WIL is many things.
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Dr. Cameron Stockdale@camcstockdale·
@AlexUsherHESA WIL isn't just about job prep, it's about broadening perspectives, merging theory with practice, enhancing skills in real-world contexts. Let's clear the confusion: it’s not just a gateway to the labor market, but a bridge to versatile skills and resilient futures.
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Alex Usher
Alex Usher@AlexUsherHESA·
This is absolutely true. And something governments should consider more thoroughly when devising WIL-related programs and impose WIL-related PBF indicators. (it's even more true of study abroad)
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I asked @connie about her lesson 2 “demand is through the roof” [for coop]. @BHERCanada #WIL programs have high demand BUT student interviews tell us they don’t see it *as* necessary given the tight labour market right now.

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Her response: 3 big things students are craving as they come out of the pandemic: 1. A career, 2. They want to have impact and be change makers, and 3. They’re looking for belonging and a sense of community. #GICBerlin23
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Val Walker@Val1Walker·
I asked @connie about her lesson 2 “demand is through the roof” [for coop]. @BHERCanada #WIL programs have high demand BUT student interviews tell us they don’t see it *as* necessary given the tight labour market right now.
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@AlexUsherHESA Especially if they could line up all the employers who would say, as we’re hearing more and more, that they’ll teach the technical skills. They just need people with the skills in column 2.
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Alex Usher
Alex Usher@AlexUsherHESA·
Pretty sure universities & colleges actually do inclucate a lot of what's in the third column. But boy, I'd love to see an institution choose to go all-in and focus on the stuff in column 2. That would be a pretty powerful UVP.
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Here’s a list of social and emotional (1st 3 columns) stills. He says the middle two are “least correlated to skills that are taught in colleges & universities”. Last column lists the digital skills needed.

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