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The Ontario government's new policy to expand partnership agreements between Ontario's colleges and private trainers will bolster the province's efforts to produce a more highly qualified workforce, Ontario's colleges said on November 12th.

"This creates new opportunities for international students to acquire the professional expertise to pursue rewarding careers in Ontario," said Linda Franklin, the president and CEO of Colleges Ontario. "This strengthens our workforce and our economic prosperity."

The partnerships respond to demographic changes that make it more difficult for employers to find qualified people. As the number of young people in the province continues to drop, Ontario must attract more international students.

The partnership agreements address that challenge by providing more spaces for international students who want to acquire an Ontario college education. This is particularly important in filling labour shortages in communities outside the GTA.

concordia.ca: November 13, 2019

When Samr Ali, a PhD student in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, talks about machine learning and artificial intelligence, she cannot hide her excitement.

She’s one of 80 graduate students participating in the Mitacs-Ericsson Global Artificial Intelligence Accelerator (GAIA) research initiative in Montreal.

Out of the eight Canadian universities involved, Concordia’s delegation was the largest, with 25 students. Their projects attracted $1.2 million in funding from Mitacs-Ericsson.

STEMing UP Students awarded the CAN-NCWIT Award for Aspiration in Computing on November 9, 2019. The NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing (AIC)  honors women in grades 9 through 12 who are active and interested in computing and technology and encourages them to pursue their passions. Recipients are chosen for their demonstrated interest and achievements in computing, proven leadership ability, academic performance, and plans for post‑secondary education.  In this inaugural year of the Canadian NCWIT AIC Awards, applications were received from across Canada in numbers that far exceeded our expectations.  Winners and honourable mentions were invited to the ACM Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing conference on November 9th to receive their award while 750 Canadian women in computing cheered them on. Canadian AIC awards were made possible by Shopify, Queen’s School of Computing and ACM.

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Nov. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- New research published by CompTIA, the leading trade association for the global technology industry, finds that teenagers around the world believe that technology is generally moving in a positive direction and is a force for good that will play an even greater role in their lives as they grow older.

The CompTIA report "International Youth Perspectives of Technology and Careers" reveals that one-half of the teenagers surveyed would consider a career in technology. They are generally positive about what a job in tech entails – solving problems, doing work that's interesting and fun and earning a good salary.

But the survey of more than 1,500 teenagers also finds that barriers are still in place that may be keeping even more young people from looking at the technology field as a profession. Teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 from 11 different countries1 participated in the survey.

With cyberthreats on the rise, cybersecurity professionals are, unsurprisingly, a hot commodity. According to a recent study by Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be 350% growth in open cybersecurity positions from 2013 to 2021 and it is estimated that, due to the talent crunch, there will be 3.5 million job openings in the industry by 2021.

With that in mind, one of our articles to mark this year’s Antimalware Day features insights from several ESET security researchers. We asked them a series of questions to learn how they built their expertise and to gather their thoughts about the usefulness of formal education versus self-study for becoming a security practitioner.

Learn all by yourself?

While more and more colleges and universities worldwide offer degree programs in computer security, far from all academic institutions have launched such programs. Indeed, many experts in the field are self-taught and/or have acquired their skills through various non-academic courses and certifications.

School District 57 superintendent Anita Richardson. Citizen Photo by James Doyle

In the two decades Anita Richardson has been stimulating young minds, as a teacher, principal and administrator, she's noticed a radical change in the way students learn and it's the education system that's had to evolve.

Technology has become a pervasive tool in classrooms and schools that no longer use a one-size-fits-all approach to connect with their students and Richardson, the newly-hired superintendent of School District 57, is convinced that willingness for teachers to adapt is the magic formula for creating more successful students.

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