Why colleges in Canada are 'hard-wired' to the communities that surround them - Macleans.ca

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Colleges, which are in Canada's biggest cities and smallest towns, work closely with local industry and community groups when designing their programs and research projects

It all started when Maple Leaf Foods added a second shift to its plant in Brandon, Man., the company’s flagship facility in Canada, and needed more employees. It was able to find some workers locally, but international recruiting became a big part of its strategy—and Assiniboine Community College, also in Brandon, saw a way to help.

“Most of our students who come to us from other countries, their goal is really to be in Canada,” Frison says. “And so, this is not only a way that they can learn that skill, it’s pretty seamless for them then to be able to go work for those companies, or in other parts of the sector, such as retail.”

The project has been so successful that Vanderveken has started expanding City School beyond Hamilton. So far, the school has provided some services in Burlington, Ont., and has reached out to contacts in Caledonia, Ont. But the program might be getting much, much bigger.

“So now, knowing that ocean plants overall don’t do so well anymore in our coastal waters, and hearing that the government is actually supporting a wild harvest without having the means to monitor what these harvesters actually would do, we didn’t think this harvest actually was justified,” Voelker says. Around that time, he read an article about North Island College and its work farming kelp.

 

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