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Recommendation 8.
That the National Education and
Training Agency work with educational institutions to provide:
- Catch-up programs for women in the sciences and mathematics.
- Special up-dating courses to allow employees to update their
qualifications and to be recertified for a career they had previously
interrupted.
- Universal application of mature admissions standards in
educational institutions, and greater recognition of work and life experience
as credit toward professional qualifications.
- Greater recognition by colleges and universities of courses
completed at other institutions (course articulation).
- Flexibility of course delivery as a result of extensive use
of alternative educational delivery techniques at times and locations
compatible with:
- block release;
- day release;
- part-time study leave;
- correspondence/distance learning.
- Greater availability of certificate, diploma and degree
courses in accordance with flexible delivery techniques for:
- trade and technical training;
- courses for personal, social and cultural development;
- literacy training;
- upgrading courses;
- professional courses;
- general education;
- labour education.
Recommendation 9.
That the federal and provincial
governments create, in all public educational institutions, special adult
education departments, to build on the examples of Atkinson College of York
University in Ontario, Athabaska University in Alberta, and the Open Learning
Institute in British Columbia.
Recommendation 10.
That Paid Skills Development Leave
programs provide for compensatory time off for participants. |