Policy Options

Each year more than 7,000 of the brightest and most determined minds in Canada are awarded PhDs. As of 2015, there were 208,480 PhD holders in Canada. However, only...

For many Canadians, the world of cyberattacks and hackers still seems far removed from their day-to-day activities. Perception, however, does not always match reality. Anyone employed by a sizable...

Ontario’s government recently announced a slew of policy changes that would Reduce tuition fees in Ontario’s colleges and universities by 10 percent Reduce grant aid and increase loan aid...

En 1990, 43 % des Québécois de 25 à 44 ans détenaient un diplôme d’études postsecondaires ou un grade universitaire. C’était déjà beaucoup. Mais en 2017, cette proportion est...

This week’s federal budget proposed the creation of a new benefit for working-age adults to encourage us all to keep learning and reskilling. Here’s how the budget says this...

In its 2018 budget, the government of Canada reinvested significantly in science, increasing funding for research to be distributed by the three granting councils, known as the tri-council: the...

Le Canada est à la croisée des chemins de l’innovation. La productivité au pays a longtemps tiré de l’arrière par rapport à celle de nos homologues internationaux, car les...

The changing world of work is also a changing world of pay, a world that will likely lean toward greater wage-rate inequalities, stagnating incomes for the bottom 40 percent,...

Good literacy and numeracy skills will help everyone prepare for the rapidly evolving needs of the modern workplace. These information processing skills are essential to allow workers to perform...

The question of how we can best deal with the swiftly changing face of the workforce is a challenge for policy-makers, chief executives, educators — and, of course, workers....