Students, employers benefit from more co-op, internship, on-the-job learning
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Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills

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Backgrounders

Expanded on-the-job learning opportunities through the StrongerBC: Future Ready Action Plan

The funding expands work-integrated learning programs at:

  • Capilano University;
  • Coast Mountain College;
  • College of New Caledonia;
  • College of the Rockies;
  • Emily Carr University of Art + Design;
  • Justice Institute of British Columbia;
  • Nicola Valley Institute of Technology;
  • North Island College;
  • Northern Lights College;
  • Royal Roads University;
  • Selkirk College;
  • University of Northern British Columbia; and
  • Vancouver Community College.

Nine of the 13 smallest institutions are outside the Lower Mainland and several serve rural and remote areas with high numbers of Indigenous students.

  • This maintains focus on areas of limited access to work-integrated learning outside major urban areas and the under-representation of some student groups in programs with work-integrated learning options.

In addition, the Association for Co-Operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning BC/Yukon is receiving funding that will benefit all B.C. public post-secondary institutions.