The CMEC Chair and the Director General will meet regularly with major stakeholders to discuss national education priorities. An interactive home page will also be created on the Internet to encourage discussion of education issues. Technology in education will be a priority for CMEC in the coming months. At the postsecondary level, ministers agreed to share information on expectations for the postsecondary sector. Efforts will also continue to encourage institutions to remove unnecessary barriers to mobility.
Institutions now recognize undergraduate credits in the first and second years.
Ministers also expressed their support for the principle of prior learning assessment and recognition. Prior learning is knowledge and skills acquired through life experience as well as through formal instruction. Ministers discussed the recently released report by Statistics Canada analyzing the Canadian results of the International Adult Literacy Survey. In this regard, they reaffirmed the important link between literacy and accessibility to books. This cooperative work adds great value to what we are doing back home in each of our jurisdictions.