The Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) and RBC have released a report on how postsecondary education can be better leveraged to address Canada’s productivity crisis. The authors note that the country’s productivity does not reflect how highly educated Canada’s population is. The report identifies several challenges to improvement on this front, including a disconnect between higher education outcomes and labour market needs, institutional financial difficulties, and a lack of comparable data for assessing the postsecondary system. Looking to the future, the authors identify several areas where government, postsecondary institutions, and employers can improve, including removing barriers to innovation, ensuring work-integrated learning is where it’s needed most, and driving institutional differentiation.
