Canada faces a serious shortage of STEM skills CanadiansInvest
We live in an age when a nation’s quality of life depends on a sufficient supply of science-based professionals possessing the skills needed in our technologically advanced world.
Science is a fascinating subject, but it needs teachers with the expertise and enthusiasm to bring it alive, motivating students to pursue careers as engineers, chemists, doctors and other in-demand professions. Lacking adequate science skills, students applying to university have few choices and often end up in low career potential liberal arts programs.
Each year, students in grades 7 to 12 enter their projects in more than 100 regional STEM fairs across the country, competing to be one of the 500 who have their projects entered in the Canada Wide Science Fair . It’s high school science teachers who motivate and facilitate the participation of those tens of thousands of aspiring scientists. The 60th annual CWSF will be held in Edmonton next May.
Lamentably, this lack of motivation is also present in our dangerously overloaded health-care system. The Institute for Canadian Citizenship estimates there are thousands of foreign-trained doctors whose professional qualifications have allowed them to be fast-tracked for citizenship but are prevented from practicing because provincial regulators and professional associations refuse to recognize their qualifications.
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