Linda Franklin

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  However, said Linda Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges Ontario, some colleges will face pressure to find the capacity to meet the huge demand.

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  "We'd like to hear more about where Ontario wants to take the future of post-secondary education," said Linda Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges Ontario.
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  "Clearly, there are still students out there that it's a problem for," Franklin said.
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  For the colleges, funding is an issue, but there is something else that needs to be addressed, Franklin said.
  
  "There's really two issues for us," she said.The first has to do with a projected labour-market shortage.
  
  "We don't see any kind of provincial ... skills strategy to address that," Franklin said.
  
  She said the strategy would have to take a non-traditional route to addressing the issue before it arrives.
  
  "There's a lot of things we can do," she said of the colleges.
  
  Ontario colleges want to see the next provincial government allow colleges to become a place where immigrants with professional backgrounds can earn their Canadian credentials and enter the workforce, Franklin said.
  
  The next would be to advance the notion of college as an option after graduating from high school, she said.
  
  Franklin said there also needs to be a push to recruit groups that are under-represented in the system to actually join the system, such as Aboriginals.
  
  "There's a big pool of students we're not reaching right now," Franklin said.

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  A chapter is devoted to Linda Franklin, executive director of the Wine Council of Ontario for 14 years.

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  The final guest speaker will be Linda Franklin, who joined Colleges Ontario in 1997 after serving as president of the Wine Council of Ontario for 13 years.Franklin's success has been reflected in the growth of Ontario's wine industry and she was awarded the Queen's Jubilee medal for her contributions to the advancement of Ontario's wine industry.

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  stated Linda Franklin, Executive Director of the Wine Council of Ontario.

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  "This is a fun and entertaining way to help get students thinking about higher education and their plans for the future," said Linda Franklin, the president and CEO of Colleges Ontario.

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  "We have never had a study of this magnitude with students coming out of high school," said Linda Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges Ontario, which represents the province's 24 community colleges and helped fund King's study along with other education bodies, including the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
  
  Students interested in going on to college often can't get the high school courses they need or end up taking courses that push them on a university-bound track, said Franklin.
  
  In many cases, high schools stream students into university-level courses when they should really be looking at college. It's an important issue as Ontario moves out of a recession and into a labour shortage, she said.
  
  Franklin also can't explain why Catholic boards are sending more graduates on to post-secondary education.

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  "We're starting to look at more flexibility in who we offer these programs to - a little bit more online learning, more flexibility in how programs can start," said Linda Franklin, CEO of Colleges Ontario.

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  Linda Franklin, president of the provincial colleges association College Ontario, says there's been a rapid increase in the number of college student applications all across the province from southwestern Ontario through Toronto and up into the north.
  
  "There's a huge influx of people into the college system," Franklin says.
  
  "In some programs, paramedics for example...fire fighting, police foundations, there are far more people interested in those jobs, in those courses, than available spaces."
  
  She notes that mature students have received particular attention, both from colleges and the Ontario government.
  
  "There's been a lot of work at the colleges over the last couple of years to figure out how you would accommodate this growing demand by mature students," Franklin says.
  
  Mature students apply at various times of the year because they cannot predict when they will get laid off, she said, which can mean missing the cutoff date for applications.
  
  In Windsor, the institution opened an additional number of paramedic courses for retraining adults because there wasn't a way to accommodate this segment in the regular cycle, Franklin said.

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  "Apprenticeship is an important component of the higher education system in Ontario," said Linda Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges Ontario. "The government has made an important investment into skills training and producing a stronger economy."
  
  Franklin said the government's investment of $8.3 million in supports and incentives will encourage greater numbers of people to enter apprenticeship training, which will in turn help fill the demands for new employees in the skilled trades.
  
  Franklin also noted that the recession has posed particular challenges to apprenticeship, as businesses have struggled to maintain their workforces in the midst of decreased manufacturing. She said today's announcement will help address these challenges.
  
  "These measures are timely and very much needed as we face the looming shortage of skilled workers," said Franklin, noting the Conference Board of Canada estimates Ontario faces a workforce shortage of more than 360,000 employees by 2025.

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