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Association of CanadianCommunity Colleges (ACCC)

Accelerating the reach towards

World Class Standards and

the Growth of Global Convergence@

The ADB Skills for Inclusive

and Sustainable Growth International ForumDecember 2013

Paul Brennan, VP. International Partnerships

And member of the Board of the WFCP


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What is the ACCC?

National & international voice of Canadas 130 public

post-secondary institutions of applied learning and

applied research

A membership-driven organization with four

mandates: research, advocacy, partnerships &

marketing

A one-door entry into this decentralized system

Reaching over 3,000 communitie

s with 1.5 millionlearners

Multicultural & open to the world

70 employees at the Secretariat

First to be ISO Certified


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Canadian Colleges Place in the System(some variances by province/territory)

Secondary Schools

UniversitiesApprenticeshipColleges, Institutes, Cgeps,

University Colleges & Polytechnics

University Transfer

Program(1st & 2nd year)

4-year Applied

Degree2-3 ans

DIPLOMES

Certificate

(1 year)

Academic Upgrading

(as required)

Masters Degree

(1-2 years)

3-4 year

Bachelors Degree1st year

2nd year

3rd year

4th year

Doctoral Degree

(2-5 years)

Graduate Certificate or Diploma

(1 year)

Joint

Diploma/Degree

Workplace Learning(with a journeyperson)

In-class Component at

Colleges or Union Training

Centers

EMPLOYMENT MARKET

2-3 ans

DIPLOMES

Diploma

Technologist: 3 years

Diploma

Technician: 2 years


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Success Indicators

90% of our graduates get a job within 6 months ofgraduating and 93% of employers are satisfied with thequality of our graduates;

22% of our learners have university degrees andstudies, cannot find jobs and come to colleges for oneyear of practical learning that leads to jobs;

A research from the Canadian Federation ofIndependent Business (CFIB) found that SMEs nowneed 4 college graduates for every university graduate;

ACCC works in twenty+ countries around the world totransfer and adapt the Canadian College Education forEmployment approach.


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Completion of Post-SecondaryEducation


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World Class Standardsfor whom?

ADB: Skills for Inclusive and SustainableGrowth is the objective for Asia

With a focus on Youth and Technology

Take a youth focus on quality!? Traditional Standards and Accreditation are

focused on process and delivery issues

Necessary but sufficient? ``Accreditation focuses heavily on process with no ability to

analyze what and how much students are learning. Butstudents and employers are thinking more about the skillsand outcomes necessary to succeed in the workplace``

Richard DeMillo, Director of The Centre for 21st CenturyUniversities at Geor ia Institute of Technolo .


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What do Youth want?

Access to learning anywhere anytime

Recognition of their learning from wherever

Programs will help them find employment

Include internships as first work experience

Teachers using technology effectively

Provide them with the soft skills like

entrepreneurship and learning to learn Occasion to explore applied research and

innovation endeavours

Pathways to work, to study abroad and torecognition of credentials


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The Wicked Question

How to measure

& raise the qualityof those aspects that are

of most concern

to the new generation toa world class standard?


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1. Key PerformanceIndicators (KPIs)

In Ontario measure the following outcomesof the college\polytechnic system: % of graduates in employment after 6 months

% of graduates in employment related to theirstudies after 6 months

Degree of satisfaction of the graduates withtheir college education now that are working

Degree of satisfaction of the employers of thegraduates with their knowledge and skills

Independent firm on behalf of the ministry

Publish the results for every program and

college Tie 3-5% of fundin to those results!


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Launching KPIs in China

Leaders from 70+ Institutes of Technologyin Canada under the VocationalLeadership Training Program (VELT)

Examine leadership, assessment,governance, focus on student issues

First Forum of College presidents and VPsfrom China and Canada a month in Beijing

After two years, China decides to adapt &implement a KPI system for Chinesecolleges and institutes of technology


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Vocational EducationLeadership Training (VELT)


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KPIs in China:Improvements

1. System Info: Infrastructure, seats, funding

2. Faculty qualifications, faculty-student ratios

3. Student Results: Employment rate; new

businesses created; satisfaction withlearning; starting salaries...

4. Teacher research and reform of pedagogy

5. Service to the Community: grad and college6. Degree of Internationalization (no. of joint

programs, students abroad, facultyexchanges, hosted intl students...)

7. State commendations and awards (bonus)


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KPIs: A Caution

KPIs do not measure all our mandates

Access to all mandate? Metrics?

Facilitating success for the excluded, forthe less well prepared for studies?

Bringing an excluded community from

40% employment to 70% is a success! Some quality issues like inspiration of

the faculty or of the institution leadersdifficult to measure directly


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2. Leading Culture Change

In rapidly changing environmentfocused on responsiveness to student,employer and community needs:

Quality Leadership is the key factor

Leadership that is entrepreneurial,cutting-edge, connected to the

community, focused on all learnersdiffering needs, mobilizing allstakeholders with a vision, and global in

its outlook, And always learning.


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Thousand Women

Movementwww.accc.ca

http://www.accc.ca/xp/index.php/en/programs/int-partnerships/brazil-mulheres/video


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3. More EffectiveInternational Exchanges?

All convinced of value of conferences,regional collaborations, internationalnetworks

Very good ones: CPSC, SEAMEOTVET Centre, ADB knowledgenetworks, UNESCO-UNEVOC...

Source of new ideas and contacts Effective in supporting change and

reaching world class quality standards?


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Some out-of-the box Ideas

World class Standards: For whom, withwhom to develop, and for what?

For our learners, so that they meet theirobjectives, for employers to be able tofind and assess skilled professionalsand for inclusive and sustainable growth

Need to involve our learners and ouremployers and communities more!

Bravo ADB for students at this Forum!


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Some out-of-the box Ideas?

Working with global employers oncommon core of competency standardsallowing more mobility and recognition?

Facilitating more global mobility ofstudents and faculty, using internships?

Adopting an institutional approach to

exchanges and leading change:partnership agreements, mentoring...

Increasing our nurturing of & applied

research on Transformative Leadership


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World Federation of

Colleges & Polytechnics

Members Worldwide

Visit : http://wfcp.org/

Contact : [email protected]


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World Federation ofColleges & Polytechnics

And join one of our Working Groups:

International standards & mobility (automotive?) Leadership development for tomorrow

Green Colleges (internal and external)

Applied Research and TT for small business


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ACCC History

http://www.accc.ca/xp/index.php/en/

programs/int-partnerships

[email protected]

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