Alberta’s Initiatives for Adult Learners: When Traditional Education Yields Diminishing Returns

To ensure that it has the human resource capacity to meet the challenges of the new economy, the Alberta Advanced Education and Career Development (AECD) responds to the needs of adult learners and the economy by developing the generic employability skills of adult learners—particularly those who do not benefit significantly from traditional academic programming.

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