Post-Secondary Planning Resources
Check out this new resource that allows Canadian high school students to take virtual campus tours of every university and college in Canada...CampusTour.ca
Campus Rankings - Leveraging thousands of real student reviews to create the most candid and comprehensive rankings on Canadian Post-secondary schools for you.
Building a Highly-Skilled and Resilient Workforce - Canadian workers face a rapidly changing economy which will have a profound impact on the nature of work and jobs of the future. To be equipped for this change, there is a critical need for Canada to rethink our approach to learning, work, and training.
The Death of the Full-Time Job - By reflecting on the trends emerging today, we can speculate about what the future labour market will look like and how we’ll need to train our next generation of students.
The Future of the Canadian Workforce in the Digital Society - Together with other countries, government of Canada (2010) recognizes that digital literacy—the ability to use digital technology and the Internet, to gather, manage, and evaluate information, to create documents in multiple media forms, and to communicate at distance—is a prerequisite for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This needs to be leveraged by the so-called soft—or 21st century—transdisciplinary skills.
Canada's Best Jobs 2017 - An article on the Canadian Business website that represents their definitive ranking of Canada’s Best Jobs for 2017. They use publicly available data from Statistics Canada and Employment & Social Development Canada to rank the jobs with the highest salaries, strongest job growth, and best long-term hiring momentum.
Labour Market Trends in Ontario - Ontario Job Futures allows you to search for occupations and the trends in their demand, the required educational preparation, and other very helpful (and interesting) information and potential career pathways.
The Boomer Shift - The dramatic greying of Canada’s population will reshape the economy, stifle growth and force governments to provide for a growing number of seniors with a shrinking pool of taxpayers. This article is part of The Globe and Mail’s week-long series on baby boomers and how their spending, investing, health and lifestyle decisions could affect Canada’s economy in the next fifteen years.
The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Physical Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for physical sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
CanLearn - A Government of Canada website providing lots of planning tools to help make decisions about saving for, selecting and financing your post-secondary education.
School Finder - A website where you will find comprehensive information on college and university tuition, facilities, programs, admission requirements and deadlines. You will also find information on scholarships and financial aid, events and careers.
UniversityStudy.ca - This is a website that offers profiles of Canadian universities, a large study programs database and helps you plan your university education.
Degrees.ca is a comprehensive source for Universities and Colleges in Canada. Discover degree and diploma programs from every University and College in the country. Find out which career options and professional certifications are available, and the education steps required to achieve your career goals.
Many prospective engineering students confuse engineering with general science. It's related, but engineering is about applying scientific knowledge and concepts to real-world problems. In fact, many engineers involved in discovering solutions to urgent problems must often work faster than the traditional method of scientific discovery would permit. Most engineering majors concentrate on a particular specialty, supplemented by courses in both science and mathematics. Knowing which area of engineering you plan to pursue can be challenging. This site helps to explain the areas of focus and looks at job prospects in each one. The site is American but the information is still helpful.
So you want to be an Engineer? Check out the resources, assessments and information on this site to learn more about all of the opportunities available in the Engineering field.
ONTransfer.ca is a service provided by the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) to connect current and prospective students to transfer opportunities.A member organization with participation of all 44 publicly funded colleges and universities in Ontario, ONCAT was established in 2011 to enhance academic pathways and reduce barriers for students looking to transfer among those institutions.
Check out this new resource that allows Canadian high school students to take virtual campus tours of every university and college in Canada...CampusTour.ca
Campus Rankings - Leveraging thousands of real student reviews to create the most candid and comprehensive rankings on Canadian Post-secondary schools for you.
Building a Highly-Skilled and Resilient Workforce - Canadian workers face a rapidly changing economy which will have a profound impact on the nature of work and jobs of the future. To be equipped for this change, there is a critical need for Canada to rethink our approach to learning, work, and training.
The Death of the Full-Time Job - By reflecting on the trends emerging today, we can speculate about what the future labour market will look like and how we’ll need to train our next generation of students.
The Future of the Canadian Workforce in the Digital Society - Together with other countries, government of Canada (2010) recognizes that digital literacy—the ability to use digital technology and the Internet, to gather, manage, and evaluate information, to create documents in multiple media forms, and to communicate at distance—is a prerequisite for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This needs to be leveraged by the so-called soft—or 21st century—transdisciplinary skills.
Canada's Best Jobs 2017 - An article on the Canadian Business website that represents their definitive ranking of Canada’s Best Jobs for 2017. They use publicly available data from Statistics Canada and Employment & Social Development Canada to rank the jobs with the highest salaries, strongest job growth, and best long-term hiring momentum.
Labour Market Trends in Ontario - Ontario Job Futures allows you to search for occupations and the trends in their demand, the required educational preparation, and other very helpful (and interesting) information and potential career pathways.
The Boomer Shift - The dramatic greying of Canada’s population will reshape the economy, stifle growth and force governments to provide for a growing number of seniors with a shrinking pool of taxpayers. This article is part of The Globe and Mail’s week-long series on baby boomers and how their spending, investing, health and lifestyle decisions could affect Canada’s economy in the next fifteen years.
The 2015-2016 Times Higher Education World University Rankings' Physical Sciences table judges world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The ranking of the world's top 100 universities for physical sciences employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
CanLearn - A Government of Canada website providing lots of planning tools to help make decisions about saving for, selecting and financing your post-secondary education.
School Finder - A website where you will find comprehensive information on college and university tuition, facilities, programs, admission requirements and deadlines. You will also find information on scholarships and financial aid, events and careers.
UniversityStudy.ca - This is a website that offers profiles of Canadian universities, a large study programs database and helps you plan your university education.
Degrees.ca is a comprehensive source for Universities and Colleges in Canada. Discover degree and diploma programs from every University and College in the country. Find out which career options and professional certifications are available, and the education steps required to achieve your career goals.
Many prospective engineering students confuse engineering with general science. It's related, but engineering is about applying scientific knowledge and concepts to real-world problems. In fact, many engineers involved in discovering solutions to urgent problems must often work faster than the traditional method of scientific discovery would permit. Most engineering majors concentrate on a particular specialty, supplemented by courses in both science and mathematics. Knowing which area of engineering you plan to pursue can be challenging. This site helps to explain the areas of focus and looks at job prospects in each one. The site is American but the information is still helpful.
So you want to be an Engineer? Check out the resources, assessments and information on this site to learn more about all of the opportunities available in the Engineering field.
ONTransfer.ca is a service provided by the Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer (ONCAT) to connect current and prospective students to transfer opportunities.A member organization with participation of all 44 publicly funded colleges and universities in Ontario, ONCAT was established in 2011 to enhance academic pathways and reduce barriers for students looking to transfer among those institutions.