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By Antonia Maioni. Coming out of high school, I broke my father’s heart. Instead of attending secretarial college, the guarantee of immediate employment in those days, I enrolled in an undergraduate arts program at university.
Any of the jobs I would have trained for then would be obsolete by now (just as my dad’s at long-gone Northern Electric), but the skills acquired through the liberal arts are still as useful as ever. Today, we may have a shortage of trades in Canada, and a gap between trades and needs in certain sectors, but the answer is not to sacrifice a commitment to university education, especially in the arts. Overall, all those BA graduates are still needed because, over time, they will continue to be among the most adaptable workers in an ever-changing economy. Read more...