Education and Training

The knowledge-based economy requires an increasingly skilled and well-educated labour force.  For New Brunswick, that means investing in quality learning and a strong public education system; ensuring workers have the skills and training to remain competitive for jobs; recruiting highly qualified people such as researchers to work in New Brunswick; and encouraging young New Brunswickers graduating from post-secondary education to remain in the province and contribute their talents and skills.  In addition to e-learning mentioned earlier, focused areas of research of strategic importance to the province could include the following:

• Special Needs – addressing learning challenges related to disabilities, immigrant and minority communities, and other populations at risk and/or on the margins of Canadian society
• Enhanced Participation – early childhood, increased quality of K-12, enhanced participation and success in post-secondary, post-graduate, and lifelong learning
• Teaching – literacy, second language education, multiculturalism, teaching in minority communities, improved math and science, and human rights and social justice
• Health – nutrition, addiction, aging, health across the life-span (healthy populations)