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The transition from education to workplace and beyond used to be relatively straightforward: high school, post-secondary, job market, promotions, management, retirement. In today’s environment, with new complexities related to technology, shifting global markets, a desire for work-life balance and the speed of change, skills require constant reinvention.

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The pandemic has radically transformed the nature of work and learning, but if you think the big changes are over, think again.

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To help manage the influx of new business spurred by the pandemic, Skip the Dishes called Red River College Polytechnic (RRC Polytech) in Winnipeg and asked for help at the start of the year. The food delivery network requested a set of courses be designed to train the Winnipeg-based company’s work force as they grew and brought in a wave of new hires.

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When Guillermo Acosta looks out the window at Humber College’s Faculty of Media & Creative Arts he sees a fleet of construction cranes, but also something else — the future of how education, industry and the arts will work together.

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If you want to understand how the environmental studies landscape in Canada has changed, think back to Walkerton, says Sean Beingessner.

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Yekaterina Giyasova never considered herself a top student. The SAIT business graduate had earned a degree in Thailand before she returned to Calgary to attend the polytechnic school.

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When Larissa Meleiro walked into her first day of her hospitality internship at a Hampton by Hilton hotel in Toronto, she knew she was ready to be there.

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Krysten Payne, whose father was a teacher, remembers being strongly encouraged to choose university over college after high school.

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At Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, the bachelor of psychiatric nursing students learn a holistic approach to mental health care. Fittingly, their own education takes a holistic approach too.

Read More > “How experiential learning builds students’ confidence and skills”