Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada

A Profile of Minority-language Students in Canada: Results from the Programme for International Student Assessment, 2009

In 2009, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) went into the field in Canada for the fourth time. PISA began in 2000 and focuses on the capabilities of 15-year-olds as they near the end of compulsory education. This article summarizes the results of PISA 2009 for students in minority-language school systems in the seven provinces that reported data for both their English and French-language school systems (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia). ...

Trends in Registered Apprenticeship Training in Canada, 1991 to 2009

Following an extended period of slow growth during the recession of the 1990s, the number of both newly-registered apprentices and completers of apprenticeship programs in the four largest trade groups entered a strong growth phase beginning in the late 1990s. However, between 2008 and 2009 the number of completions continued its upward trend, whereas the number of newly-registered apprentices decreased sharply ...

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Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS)

Updated RAIS data are now available on CANSIM: tables 477-0053, 477-0054 and 477-0055.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 3154.