I have spent a couple days this week participating in activities at University of Toronto. It is particularly satisfying to be part of this advisory board.
On Monday, I delivered a lecture on telecom policy and regulation to the Executive Development Program – helping set the stage for a week of professional development for 51 executives from carriers and suppliers.
On Thursday, I was involved with advisory board meetings for the Master of Engineering in Telecom program. One of our key concerns was ensuring there will be continuing development of relevant talent for companies to recruit; an equal concern is ensuring that there will be a continued pool of newly created, entrepreneurial Canadian telecommunications companies to do the recruiting.
We are looking at some innovative projects to stimulate the pool of well qualified candidates for the Master of Engineering in Telecom programme and expand the breadth of scope for the program: call it MET 2.0. How would you approach the challenge of stimulating telecom career development on campus? I’ll report back as work continues.