Foreign/Provincial Qualifications and Professional Bodies: Must Recognize Rule
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Submitted by dsanden 2010–05–18 12:06:44 EDT
Theme: Building Digital Skills
Idea Status: +8 | Total Votes: 12 | Comments: 0
Self–regulating professional bodies –engineering, medicine, law, technology etc. — must recognize and give a designation at some skill level in the field of recent immigrants and provincial migrants within days, much like western provinces recently agreed to do, and similar to Israel's strategy (book "Start–Up Nation", p.133 Department for the Evaluation of Overseas Degrees) There's a tendency for associations to protect the interests of their current members, including measures of exclusivity which improve pricing power. That is not aligned with our national strategies to attract foreign talent, nor to build a flexible and mobile workforce.
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