Study shows the “cool factor” and not job stability concerns matters more to high school students considering careers in ICT
What influences Generation Y high school students in their career choices?

TORONTO, June 9, 2009 – Canada’s Generation Y high school students believe that jobs in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector pay well, are easy to find and offer good job security. But according to a recent study of Grade 9 & 10 high school students conducted by the Conference Board of Canada, funded by Bell, for the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT), these factors have no bearing on whether or not they are attracted to an ICT career. The study provides new information about why Canadian students have been turning away from computer-related programs in colleges and universities with 33-40% or more rates of declining enrollments since 2001.
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Tangible measures to ensure a strong emerging workforce
in a vital sector for Montreal

Montreal, April 29, 2009 -  In the brief submitted today to Montreal’s standing committee of the urban area council for the city’s economic development, the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills presents a series of concrete measures and approaches to ensure the growth of the information and communications technologies sector. “Montreal’s economic development certainly hinges on, among other sectors, ICT. It is thus essential to promote the development of ICT and to ensure a ready supply of quality labour,” affirmed Stephane Boisvert, president of the Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills and president of Bell Canada and Bell’s Enterprise Group.
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National ICT Week to promote a strong emerging workforce
and to counter the shortage of graduates

Montreal, December 17, 2008 – The Canadian Coalition for Tomorrow’s ICT Skills (CCICT) will organize a series of events and activities with the goal of countering the growing shortage of university graduates in the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector. Its main activity will be National ICT Week, to take place in the fall of 2009.
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