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The latest from the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training
VitalSignsNB diabetes student spotlight: Meet the students exploring chronic disease diagnoses in administrative data
Bailey Howland and Gavin Woodward
Posted: May 9, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Health , Pathways to Professions , Student Spotlights , Education
The VitalSignsNB research stream in NB-IRDT’s Pathways to Professions experiential learning program has focused on a different health-related project each summer since 2021. In 2023, VitalSignsNB expanded to host two new projects at once – one that focused on midwifery services in New Brunswick (featured in an upcoming Student Spotlight) while the other examined diabetes cases in administrative data, highlighting the benefits and potential limitations associated with using...
From Classroom to Career: Analyzing the Earnings of NBCC Graduates
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 14, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Population Research , Education
Researchers at NB-IRDT are busy producing a new report series with the aim of building a comprehensive body of work on New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) students and graduates. The first report (released May 2023) looked at the mobility and retention of NBCC graduates. It found that most New Brunswickers who attended NBCC study at campuses near their hometowns – but whether they studied locally or moved across the province to attend NBCC, the majority of graduates are likely to...
Graduate Retention in New Brunswick: Supplementary Report on Graduates in Social Work
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: May 26, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Population Research , Education
Social workers and community service workers provide access to social services, address broad social issues and help individuals in their pursuit for well-being. They help with life’s most difficult moments – when help is needed most. Between an aging population, economic hardship and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, New Brunswickers have faced some incredible challenges. Without a doubt, social workers have played an integral role in supporting us through these trying...
Where are NBCC Graduates Going?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: April 28, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Education , Population Research
Here in New Brunswick, we often hear about young workers eager to move away to other provinces for economic benefit. However, we don’t often hear about where young people who choose to stay in NB end up after graduation and what factors influence their decision. A recent report by NB-IRDT researchers, Retention and Mobility of NBCC Graduates, takes an in-depth look at New Brunswick Community College (NBCC) graduates and where they end up. Recent reports by NB-IRDT show that the...
A Look at New Brunswick’s Returning Graduates
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: February 8, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Population Research , Education
New Brunswickers love their province’s universities and colleges – so much so that, in a given year, approximately 80% of New Brunswick residents in pursuit of a post-secondary education choose to stay and study in New Brunswick. But, what about the other 20%? Where do they go? And do they come back after they graduate? NB-IRDT researchers explore these questions in our most recent report: Post-secondary graduates’ province of study, post-graduation residence in New...
How Many New Brunswickers are Leaving After Graduation? NB-IRDT's 2019-2020 Update on Graduate Retention
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: January 30, 2023 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Population Research , Education
When you hear about recent graduates here in New Brunswick (NB), the dominant narrative always seems to be that students are eager to get out of NB to find better jobs and make more money elsewhere. But is this actually the case? As a part of an ongoing five-year agreement with the Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour (PETL), researchers at NB-IRDT have taken a deeper look to see if students really are leaving NB after they graduate. By combining linked data from the...
NB-IRDT Launches Pathways to Policies Undergraduate Course
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 29, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Pathways to Professions , Training , Education
We are happy to announce that the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training has partnered with the Department of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick to launch a new undergraduate course starting in January 2023: Pathways to Policies. POLS 3216: Pathways to Policies is a third-year undergraduate course at UNB that explores the process of using data to inform policy making. Students who enroll will explore data-informed decision making while working in teams to...
If We Build It, Will They Come?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 9, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Health , , Seniors , Youth , Education
In popular culture, one phrase is often used to manifest success: “If you build it, they will come.”While this idea exudes positivity and the power of hard work, we have to question its accuracy in terms of population research.In a province like New Brunswick, which is heavily invested in population growth and recruitment, does building new public facilities and increasing public services actually prompt people to come and stay? And, adversely, does closing public facilities or...
What Do New Brunswickers Do After They Leave High School?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 3, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Media , Labour Markets , Education , Population Research , Youth
What Do New Brunswickers Do After They Leave High School? An education is said to be one of the most valuable assets a person can achieve, and pursuing post-secondary education is one of many ways young students can invest in their futures. However, we ask, are some young people more likely to transition to higher education than others? Are certain New Brunswickers more likely to enrol in post-secondary education after graduating from high school? And could differences in post-secondary...
We’re Back for Another Year: Pathways to Professions Launches Its Third Season
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: June 1, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Media , Pathways to Professions , Youth , Team News , Training , Education
We’re Back for Another Year: Pathways to Professions Launches Its Third Season The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training has officially launched its third Pathways to Professions experiential learning program, and we are so excited to introduce this year’s new research streams and to announce our partnership with the Government of New Brunswick for this summer’s offerings. But First, What is Pathways to Professions? Pathways to Professions – or P2P,...
You’re Never Too Young to Get Involved in Policy Development
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: March 28, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Youth , Training , Media , Education
You’re never too young to get involved in policy development! The high schoolers who took part in ExperienceGNB this past March Break proved just that. From March 7-11, the Government of New Brunswick joined forces with NB-IRDT to offer Pathways to Professions: ExperienceGNB, a policy boot camp for high school students in the Fredericton area. Over the course of the week, a group of keen and brilliant NB students from École Sainte-Anne, Fredericton High, and Leo Hayes gave up...
Labour Market Training Programs in NB: Do Participants Stay?
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: February 28, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Training , Education
The Government of New Brunswick invests heavily in educating and retaining its population, especially skilled members of the labour force. To accomplish this, training programs have been designed and implemented to help individuals prepare for, obtain, and maintain employment in NB. These include programs such as Career Decision Making Strategies Skills Enhancement Strategies Workplace Essential Skills Student Employment Experience Development (SEED) and Co-op And more… In a recently...
NB-IRDT Joins Saint John’s Early Childhood Hub Project
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: January 6, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Education , Media , Youth
Breaking the cycle of poverty is not an easy task. Ending generational poverty requires large-scale commitments to improve education, health, employment, and more. Part of this commitment involves the installment of Early Childhood Hubs in two low-income neighborhoods, in Saint John, New Brunswick. The two Early Childhood Hubs serve families with children under age 5, collaborating with service providers to provide high-quality learning environments and prepare young children...
UNB Students Take Hands-On Approach to Research and Policy in New Brunswick
Bethany Jones
Posted: October 28, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Population Research , Economics , Education , Health , Training
The end of 2021 is in sight, and as countries around the world begin to emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns, there is a universal air of uncertainty about the future. In New Brunswick, however, this uncertainty predated the pandemic. For the past few years, the province of New Brunswick has been struggling to address the problems of an aging population, the out-migration of its youth, a shrinking labour force, and the impact these issues have on an already overly burdened health care system....
Digging Deeper into Graduate Retention: International and Domestic Students
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: September 8, 2021 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Education
The retention of post-secondary graduates is of great importance to New Brunswick, as keeping qualified graduates in the province has the potential to boost the labour market, produce higher returns on investment in post-secondary education, and combat the shrinking and aging of the NB population. The New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training has been exploring graduate retention for the past three years, producing reports on retention rates and labour market outcomes. In a...
Are Post-Secondary Graduates Staying in NB?
NB-IRDT
Posted: March 9, 2021 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Education , Population Research
College and university graduates are among the most mobile Canadians, and when they relocate, they take their human capital (and potential earnings) with them. New Brunswick invests substantially in educating post-secondary students, but when qualified graduates leave the province, much of that investment is lost. Understanding what kinds of graduates are leaving or staying can help inform targeted policies that encourage graduates to stay and contribute to the local economy, and estimating...
Introduction to Regression Workshop
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: February 11, 2021 12:00:00 PM AST
Regression is a powerful statistical tool that is used to understand or to make predictions about the world around us. Understanding what regression is and when and how it is used is the focus of this introductory workshop. The workshop includes a comprehensive introduction to regression methods and its utility. Equipped with this knowledge, participants will feel more confident in their ability to engage in discussions on the use of regression analyses and in interpreting results from...
Student Spotlight: Postsecondary Enrolments and Graduate Outcomes
NB-IRDT Staff
Posted: January 14, 2021 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Education , Population Research
From 2018 to 2027, New Brunswick is projected to have 120,000 job openings across the province, leading to concerns over an impending labour market shortage alongside increasing youth outmigration. Education, however, may offer a solution. Education serves as a vehicle for social and economic progress. Practices such as targeting postsecondary enrolments could help address the impending labour market gap, and evaluating the changes in STEM and non-STEM enrolments could help inform policies to...
What our Pathways to Professions staff and students were up to over the summer
NB-IRDT
Posted: October 30, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Education , Pathways to Professions
Check out the 2020 Program in Review to learn more about the program, the students, the research, and ways you can get involved. Meet the Editor: The 2020 Program in Review was compiled and edited by this year’s Student Communications Coordinator, Noubahar Hasnain. Noubahar is a fourth-year Business Administration student at UNB, originally from Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. She has aspirations to use her Honours in Finance and Minors in Economics and International Business to pursue a...
Pathways to Professions program comes to a close
NB-IRDT
Posted: August 10, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Population Research , Pathways to Professions , Education
At NB-IRDT, we research priority issues in New Brunswick, like outmigration. We also dedicate resources to being part of the solution. This summer marked the inaugural run of our experiential student research program – Pathways to Professions. Through this and other such programs we are investing in the future workforce and future research capacity in New Brunswick. In recent years, New Brunswick has seen many graduates and young workers move to other provinces for career...
NB-IRDT gets experiential learning program off the ground and at a distance
NB-IRDT
Posted: June 10, 2020 12:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Pathways to Professions , Education
NB-IRDT's experiential learning program, Pathways to Professions, has proceeded full speed ahead, despite the challenges of operating during a global pandemic. The program was developed-- and then adapted to be delivered remotely-- by staff at the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data and Training (NB-IRDT) in partnership with the Atlantic Institute for Policy Research (AIPR), FutureReadyNB, Planet Hatch, and the Director of Experiential Education at UNB. Students are working remotely...