Overview
The Alberta 2030 initiative will transform the adult learning system to focus on providing the high quality education, skills and training needed to get Albertans back to work, meet current and future labour market demands, and drive innovation to make Alberta competitive in a 21st century global economy.
We will collaborate with employers, industry, students, post-secondary institutions and other stakeholders throughout 2020 to develop a strategy that:
- ensures students have skills and education to solve emerging problems and adapt to changing demands and opportunities
- increases access to post-secondary education and encourages a wider range of potential learners to participate
- increases the level of collaboration between institutions, giving students more options to transfer credit
- strengthens relationships between employers and post-secondary institutions to help guide educational programming and work placement opportunities
- improves governance and financial sustainability for the system
- empowers institutions to become more entrepreneurial and seek new sources of revenue
Status
Engagement is underway. Surveys open Sept. 25 to Nov. 1, 2020.
Who is listening
Ministry of Advanced Education
Stakeholder engagement journey
Get involved
We'd like to hear your perspective on the province's post-secondary system to help inform the Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy.
The surveys and workbook tool are open until November 1, 2020.
- Review the Stakeholder Discussion Workbook to collect your thoughts or guide a group discussion:
- Complete the online survey most relevant to you:
- Take the student survey if you are a student
- Take the employer and industry survey if you are an employer
- Take the public survey if you are an interested Albertan
How we're engaging
Stakeholder engagement will consist of:
- 140+ interviews to gather initial hypotheses, perspectives and concerns (August-September)
- 25+ roundtables to review and react to issues analyses; discuss and debate options and provide input (August-October)
- Public, student and employer surveys (September-October)
- 6-8 townhalls to playback input and perspectives, share strategic themes and options, provide facts and benchmarks and invite new input (October-December)
- 1 summit to frame the Alberta 2030 declaration (December)
Overview of stakeholder engagement activities (PDF, 142 KB)
Outcomes
The review will:
- produce a final report, to be ready in late 2020, that assesses:
- global models and trends in post-secondary education
- Alberta’s existing post-secondary model and governance
- individual institutions
- develop an implementation roadmap by early 2021
Alberta 2030 guiding coalition
A guiding coalition has been established to oversee the Alberta 2030 initiative and help ensure the process remains focused on key priorities.
Membership includes:
- Jonathan Bilodeau, executive director, Alberta Students’ Executive Council
- Dr. Ian Brodie, professor of political science, University of Calgary
- Dave Collyer, chair, Bow Valley College Board of Governors
- Sir John Daniel, chancellor, Acsenda School of Management (Vancouver)
- Ken Heather, vice president external, Alberta Colleges and Institutes Faculties Association
- Whitney Issik, MLA for Calgary-Glenmore
- Kevin Kane, president, Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations
- Laura Kilcrease, CEO, Alberta Innovates
- Adam Legge, president, Business Council of Alberta
- Rowan Ley, chair, Council of Alberta University Students
- Ruby Littlechild, Indigenous and community engagement, SNC-Lavalin
- Omer Moghrabi, Mayor, Lac La Biche County
- Mary Moran, president and CEO, Calgary Economic Development
- Dr. Robert W. Murray, president and CEO, Grande Prairie Regional College
- Terry O’Flynn, president, Prism Flow Products and chair, Alberta Enterprise Group
- Dr. Tim Rahilly, president and vice-chancellor, Mount Royal University
- Dr. Val Walker, CEO, Business + Higher Education Roundtable
Message from the minister
- Launching Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs (Aug. 7, 2020)
News
- Transforming Alberta’s post-secondary system (Jun. 12, 2020)
- Post-secondary review will guide long-term strategy (Feb. 21, 2020)
Last updated: October 14, 2020