Canada: Training

Ontario Cycling Association Dept: We do target the long-term unemployed, increasing access is a value of Canada college system. We have what is sometimes called the NEET generation a young person not in education, employment or training . One million Canadians between 18 and 29 are not in education nor employed, that an enormous waste in our economy. It a difficult group to reach it shows up through Stats Canada work; it a very large group, it alarming. ... Primarily they are male, but there are a lot of women involved too, according to Globe and Mail. StatsCan data is hokum. My son went to Carleton and got a degree in economics that had no value in the job market whatsoever. After a year of wandering around, he went to George Brown College for Sports and Event Management and the moment he graduated he was picked up by the Ontario Cycling Association. Then he came to Ottawa to work for the national cycling organization. Now he is in Switzerland and is a major wheel in their cycling association and The Canada Jobs Grant provides $5,000 from the federal government with another $10,000 split between employers and provinces , with training to be done through community colleges or unions. To be eligible for the training, a person has to be unemployed and not eligible for EI. So this is a way to target the long-term unemployed. Are these the students the colleges are recruiting? Speaking of skills gap, we ve seen data earlier this month from Statistics Canada that a B.A. holder still earns 41 per cent more than a high-school graduate while college graduates earn 22 per cent less than B.As. I wonder about the wisdom of encouraging high-school students to think about college rather than focus on university? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.