On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Turns out that BC has a higher proportion of residents between the ages of 25 and 64 with a trade school, college, or university education than any other province; 56.4%. Ontario has the highest proposrtion of university grads, with BC in second place. The number of university grads in BC jumped more than 75% between 1991 and 2001, which means that the previous NDP government did get one thing right: they invested in advanced education, making it possible for more people to get degrees and diplomas, and doing what they could to make it so that one's education was determined more by the strength of one's brain, rather than the strength of Daddy's wallet. Give 'em credit where it's due. The Dippers also eliminated fees for adult basic education (read: high-school equivalency) which led to there being 11% fewer working-aged BC'ers with less than a high school diploma.
Who knows? Maybe the Alberta government includes bible college grads as being part of their highly educated workforce. I sure as hell wouldn't. But the most educated workforce in Canada being in Alberta? Another Alberta myth laid to rest. Here's another critical look at the bluster around Alberta, found in National Post Business magazine, at that!.
Table: Top 5 provinces and territories by level of education
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