Post-secondary education in Canada : Enseignement postsecondaire au Canada: les attentes sont-elles comblées?

It is the only report that links the many elements of PSE to provide a national overview of the sector and how it affects the well-being of individual Canadians, the resilience of the labour market and robert Giroux the private sector’s capacity for innovation. [...] EXECUtIVE SUMMArY overvieW The Canadian Council on Learning’s third annual report on the state of PSE in Canada offers a much-needed perspec- As the world struggles with the uncertainty of a major economic tive for informed public discussion about the future of PSE in downturn, the need to ensure that Canadians have the right this country and how the sector can best help Canadians to skills and kn [...] However, the sector’s capacity to contribute to the achievement of the order of the 2008 report has been re-organized. [...] Given the increasing number of students involved in Canada’s high-school dropout rate over the last 15 in this new model of PSE, the concept of credit transfer and years is tempered by the more than one million individu- prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR) acquires als between the ages of 25 and 44 identified by the 2006 greater importance within the PSE sector.