BC – Universities warn of jobs crisis

The province’s leading universities have fired a warning shot across the bow of Premier Christy Clark’s vaunted jobs agenda.

Without increased government funding of postsecondary education and better financial aid for hard-pressed students, B.C. faces a bleak future of jobs going begging, according to a report presented Thursday to the legislature’s select finance committee.

“This is about the future of the province … and the province needs to do better,” David Turpin, president of the University of Victoria, said in an interview.

Otherwise, Mr. Turpin said, many future jobs will not be filled because B.C. will not have enough sufficiently educated people to fill them, while unemployment grows, due to a shortage of skilled workers.

“It’s the worst possible combination: jobs without people and people without jobs,” he said…

via B.C. universities warn of jobs crisis – The Globe and Mail.