The Council of Canadian Academies published Some Assembly Required: STEM Skills and Canada’s Economic Productivity.
Ottawa, Ontario, May 5, 2015 – On April 30, the Council of Canadian Academies published Some Assembly Required: STEM Skills and Canada’s Economic Productivity. The report represents the work of an 11-member Expert Panel on STEM Skills for the Future that assessed Canada’s preparedness in meeting future science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skill requirements.
“Engineers Canada supports the Council of Canadian Academies’ STEM report recommendations, including early childhood interventions to strengthen fundamental STEM skills,” said CEO Kim Allen, FEC, P.Eng. “The recommendations will maximize Canada’s potential for innovation.”
Engineers Canada has been working on issues that relate to the STEM report’s key findings, including supporting under-represented groups in engineering to broaden the profession’s skill supply; balancing STEM with other skills such as leadership, communications and creativity to promote innovation and economic growth; and developing long term strategies for capacity building.
“I congratulate the Expert Panel on their important work, and look forward to collaborating with the Council of Canadian Academies to achieve our common goal of a Canadian workforce that has balanced skills, the ability to take advantage of opportunities and the capacity to adapt to change,” said Allen.
More information on the Council of Canadian Academies’ Some Assembly Required: STEM Skills and Canada’s Economic Productivity report can be found at www.scienceadvice.ca.
The Council of Canadian Academies is an independent, not-for-profit organization that supports independent, authoritative, and evidence-based expert assessments that inform public policy development in Canada. The Council’s work encompasses a broad definition of science, incorporating the natural, social and health sciences as well as engineering and the humanities.
Engineers Canada is the national organization of the 12 engineering regulators that license the country's 280,000 members of the profession. Together, we work to advance the profession in the public interest. www.engineerscanada.ca
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