Businesses and polytechnics need to collaborate in providing more learning-integrated work opportunities for the mid-career workforce, to help address Canada’s critical skills and labour challenges, Sarah Watts-Rynard, CEO of Polytechnics Canada, says in an op-ed.
Sarah Watts-Rynard is the next CEO of Polytechnics Canada effective July 30, 2018. She will succeed Nobina Robinson who is retiring after nine years of service. Currently serving as executive director of the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum (CAF), Watts-Rynard has been credited for increasing public appreciation of the skilled trades in Canada and for engaging with…