Posts by Bryan Oates
Reflections from CEWIL 2025: Staff Takeaways on Work-Integrated Learning
The impact and potential of work-integrated learning are real LMIC arrived in Hamilton for CEWIL Canada’s annual conference amid an economy in flux, educational institutions facing a new fiscal reality and rising youth unemployment, including among post-secondary graduates. With all of this at stake, CEWIL 2025’s timing felt particularly urgent, given that Work-Integrated Learning (WIL)…Read More
Students Need Labour Market Information – Here’s What They’re Asking For
Sixty-two per cent of students say that labour market information (LMI) has helped them make post-secondary education-related decisions. However, there are many students and career practitioners who are still uncertain about how to find and use LMI. When we first joined LMIC as co-op students, we had each experienced uncertainties around our futures in the…Read More