EdUp Canada

Success does not usually happen in a straight line. It has twists and turns, speedbumps and detours. But something that’s fundamental to success is equipping yourself with the right skills…but what are the right skills? Well, let’s find out. Join me, Michael Sangster, as we learn about how successful people have turned a set of skills into success. From students to business leaders, veterans, policymakers, blue-collar workers and educators. You’ll find out how learning a set of skills can lead to a lifetime of success. Welcome to the EdUp Canada podcast. Let’s learn together.

EdUp Canada is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 119 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #98

  A BC School Is Suing ChatGPT. And It's Just the Beginning with Diane Stone of Hub International

  Aug 18, 202628 minS1

  Diane Stone didn't plan to end up in insurance. She planned to be an accountant — spent years auditing school districts and career colleges with KPMG in Vancouver, then went in-house as CFO of a large private school for almost 15 years. Then she had what she calls her first midlife crisis, moved to Dubai as Director of Finance at the American School of Dubai, came back to Canada just before COVID, and found herself being asked by the broker she'd used for 20 years if she'd like to build a new specialty practice serving the Canadian education sector. She said yes. And in doing so, she became one of the most well-positioned observers of career college risk in the country. In episode 98 of the EdUp Canada Podcast — two episodes from the show's 100th milestone — host Michael Sangster sits with Diane for a wide-ranging conversation that opens, unscripted, with something she'd learned on a call that very morning: insurance companies are now building products to cover businesses against the errors they make from over-relying on AI. A British Columbia lawsuit — Tumblr Ridge, suing ChatGPT over advice it gave a school shooter — is the landmark case. And the sector is bracing for more. The episode also covers the two insurance gaps Diane sees most consistently across career colleges, what Hub's Oceans 11 model of local specialist brokers looks like in practice, why the insurance industry may be one of the more AI-resilient sectors for people who are genuinely relational, and what Diane has learned about the career college sector — its agility, its regulation, and its willingness to meet gaps in the market — from the outside looking in. [00:00:00] — "Just This Morning I Was on a Call" [00:03:30] — "My Steepest Learning Curve of All the Sectors" [00:04:30] — Surprised by How Regulated It Actually Is [00:08:30] — Her First Midlife Crisis Was Moving to Dubai [00:14:00] — The Two Gaps Most Career Colleges Are Missing [00:15:30] — "Not What You Know, But How You Know It" [00:23:00] — The College That Immediately Asked About Building a Program [00:25:30] — Regulators as Part of the Economic Roadmap Read the full transcript here: https://share.descript.com/view/hVletasWo1b

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  Episode #97

  She Got a Job the Next Day. 40 Years Later, Her Daughter Graduated Too. with Henry Herzing of Herzing College

  Aug 4, 202633 minS1

  Henry "Hank" Herzing is 90 years old. He read the weekly reports this morning. He'll talk to Frank Cianciarusa, his president, again this week. And at some point in the not-too-distant future, he'll convene his entire Canadian and American team in Florida, because that's what you do when the culture you've built matters more to you than your title. In this episode of the EdUp Canada Podcast, host Michael Sangster sits down with the founder and CEO of Herzing College's Canadian operations — nearly 50,000 students trained across Canada over the institution's history — for a conversation that is, at its heart, about what it means to run a business for the right reasons over a very long time. Henry traces his career from a computer school in Milwaukee with 25 students and one grand dame receptionist, through eight years of losses in the trades division he refused to abandon, through a Navy missile incident that gave him his ethics framework before he'd ever hired his first instructor, all the way to a Winnipeg graduation where a mother grabbed him in a hug meant for her daughter — and a photo op where another mother quietly mentioned she'd graduated from Herzing 40 years earlier, gotten a job the next day, retired from that same employer, sent her daughter through university with the income, and watched that daughter come back to Herzing for skills. That's not a marketing story. That's a life. And Henry Herzing has been accumulating them for six decades. [00:00:00] — The Mother Who Graduated 40 Years Ago [00:04:30] — The Navy Missile That Fell Off the Truck [00:07:00] — 50,000 Students in Canada. What That Number Actually Means. [00:07:30] — The Mother Who Ran Up and Hugged Him [00:20:30] — "We Can Do It Together" [00:14:00] — Was ist dein Beruf? [00:16:30] — Eight Years of Losses. He Kept Going. [00:27:30] — "If You Don't Vote, Don't Complain About the Government" Listen to past episodes here: https://www.edupcanada.ca/

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  Episode #96

  The Pathways Paradox: Why Colleges Can't Afford the Students They Need to Afford Programs with James Matechuk

  Jul 28, 202632 minS1

  James Matechuk went on Global News on Canada Day to talk about what Canada means to him. He spoke for 10 minutes — about international education, career colleges, the way students from every part of the world come together on Canadian campuses and empower each other. The segment used about five seconds of it. In this episode of the EdUp Canada Podcast, he finally gets to make the case in full. As Senior Director of Higher Education Partnerships for the Oxford International Digital Institute, James has spent years watching what happens when newcomer students arrive with the drive but not quite the English to immediately succeed — and what happens when the right support is there versus when it isn't. He's been on campuses in Newfoundland, seen the programs, sat with the students, and now he's working with NACC to bring a simple but powerful fix to career college members across the country: a six-week, fully online, flipped-classroom English pathways program with a 98% student success rate. The conversation covers what James calls the "pathways paradox" — the regulatory catch-22 where colleges need English pathway programs to resource their intake, but can't offer those programs without students to fund them. It covers a co-developed English for Healthcare program with Keyin College in Newfoundland, including a customized Newfoundland dialect module. And it ends with a student story that begins with a decade of family bake sales in Brazil and ends with tears of joy in a Canadian classroom on the first day of school. [00:04:30] — The Pathways Paradox [00:07:30] — The Future of Work Conference and the English-Sized Gap Nobody Noticed [00:09:00] — English for Healthcare, Built in Newfoundland [00:12:30] — The Six-Week Flipped Classroom [00:13:30] — 98% Meet Requirements and Succeed [00:15:30] — "That's What Canada Really Means to Me" [00:22:30] — The Student Skill That Mirrors James's Own [00:29:00] — Bake Sales in a Favela

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  Episode #95

  21% of firms stopped hiring entry-level. 47% Are About to with Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd

  Jul 21, 202633 minS1

  Dr. Stephen Murgatroyd helped build the world's first fully online graduate program — an MBA at Athabasca University in 1993, back when connecting to the internet meant putting a phone handset in a cradle. Within 24 months, it had captured 30% of the executive MBA market. Since then, he's spent more than 35 years advising career colleges, public institutions, K-12 networks, and provincial quality assurance bodies on where education is going — and what happens to institutions that don't move fast enough to meet it. In episode 95 of the EdUp Canada Podcast — a return visit — host Michael Sangster brings Stephen back for an unscripted conversation about three things: what AI is actually doing to students' cognitive development, what it's doing to entry-level jobs, and what Canada's career college sector needs to do about both before it's too late. The numbers Stephen brings are not abstract. 21% of Canadian firms have already stopped hiring at entry level. 47% intend to join them within the year. The shelf life of technical accounting skills — according to Deloitte — is now 18 months, 12 for audit. And the problem underneath all of it isn't a skills gap. It's a trust gap: employers can no longer tell whether a graduate did the work or the AI did. Stephen's argument is that the first career colleges to move — to embed AI across every program, to shift from assessing what students know to what they can do, to build lifelong learning systems that serve the 30-million-person re-skilling market rather than the 3-million-person entry-level market — will define what career education looks like for the next generation. [00:00:00] — "21% of Canadian Firms Have Stopped Hiring at Entry Level" [00:06:30] — The World's First Online MBA — Built When Phones Lived in Cradles [00:07:30] — The Three-Way AI Research Finding [00:09:30] — "We Need to Shift From Assessing What Students Know to What They Can Do" [00:11:30] — It's Not a Skills Gap. It's a Trust Gap. [00:13:30] — The 18-Month Shelf Life of Accounting Skills [00:20:30] — Brainport Eindhoven: What Collaboration Actually Looks Like [00:28:00] — One Minute of Advice for Three Audiences Read the full transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/OJpJzhoKqFR Listen to past episodes here:https://www.edupcanada.ca/

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  Episode #94

  When She Says "I Want to Go Home," She Doesn't Mean the Address with Judy Cohen, Deborah Rothenberg and Einat Sandler Leib

  Jul 14, 202634 minS1

  Judy Cohen opened PEAK College because she ran a care home first. She watched PSWs arrive from other institutions — trained, credentialed, technically capable — and she knew she could do better. So she did. L'Chaim Retirement Home, a 30-bed dementia-specialized residence with a waiting list that stays long, became the proving ground for a school. Students from PEAK — and from other colleges — do their practicum at L'Chaim. What the staff observe goes straight back into the curriculum. The curriculum informs what happens in the home. It's a feedback loop that has been running, getting sharper, for over a decade. In this episode of the EdUp Canada Podcast, host Michael Sangster sits with Judy and two of her closest collaborators: Deborah Rothenberg, Director of Operations at L'Chaim and co-founder of Dementia Support, a curriculum program now being delivered to long-term care facilities across the sector; and Einat Sandler Leib, Managing Director of the Memory Loss Foundation and educational innovation consultant at PEAK College. Together they cover 770 PSW graduates in a single year, a 20-hour AI safety workshop built specifically for PSWs entering home care, a Smart and Safe seminar reaching seniors in retirement homes and community centers across the GTA, and the Moments Café — a social program for people with memory loss and their care partners. And they share the insight that Deborah delivers quietly but clearly: you can teach a PSW to check every box on the list. But kindness, empathy, and appropriate speech? That, you can't buy. [00:04:30] — Two Sides of the Same Crisis [00:06:00] — "I Can Do Better. I Must Do Better." [00:07:00] — 2,500 Questions Inside a Closed AI [00:08:30] — Five Agencies, One Room, Hired on the Spot [00:11:30] — Smart and Safe: AI for Older Adults [00:17:00] — "I Wanna Go Home" Doesn't Mean the Address [00:18:00] — "Kindness. Empathy. This You Can't Buy." [00:27:00] — The AI Policy Gap in Home Care Read the full transcript here: https://share.descript.com/view/ZexevIjwGPK Listen to past episodes here: www.edupcanada.ca

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