4 - Recommendations for a coherent
transition system
We strongly believe that a coherent transition system must be built around a set of
principles against which all recommendations should be checked.
A coherent Canadian system of transition into employment should:
- support the development of meaningful employment opportunities and prepare
individuals for them;
- serve the diversity of needs; it should integrate principles and ~ practices of equity
into each of its aspects;
- incorporate appropriate mechanisms to assess and provide the basic
skills (literacy,
numeracy, communications, and problem ." solving) needed to work and learn in
present and future environments;
- ensure that skills and competencies are portable, across If provinces and territories
between providers of education and training, and transferable, from one industry to
another;
- ensure that linkages are established, between education and training providers and
among labour market partners, and clearly identified to develop knowledge, skills,
and experience to facilitate career progress (Le., career "laddering");
- contribute to an effective labour market and, hence, to the economic viability of the
country;
- be a responsibility of governments, but also be responsive
and accountable to the partnership of business, labour, equity groups, and
education and training, as a
condition of its success;
- incorporate monitoring and accountability within its various r elements;
- develop a built-in capacity to cope with change, to allow the transition process to
adapt to changing circumstances and to occupations of the future; and
- operate on the understanding that learning is a continuous
process throughout one's
lifetime.