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    • Colleges Guide 2021

    An instructor showing how to vaccinate a patient at Red River College (Photograph by Skye Spence)

    This college created a vaccination administration course in just two weeks

    Red River College exemplified the pivotal role colleges have played in the pandemic response, training people in highly specific tasks for which there was overwhelming demand

    Shelsea Hill (Courtesy of John Crcek)

    What it takes to become an underwater welder

    In a trades program, Shelsea Hill discovered a love of welding. Then she found out she could do it underwater.

    Illustration by Sam Island

    Going to college? The best advice for new students

    Here’s a crash course in choosing from 10,000 college programs, staying on top of your work, finding financial support, getting help when you need it—and having fun and making friends

    (Courtesy of Coast Mountain College)

    What Canadian college students can expect during another pandemic school year

    This fall marks the return of student life on campus, but not everything will snap back to pre-COVID times. Hybrid models offer the option of online learning, and backup plans are in place in case numbers shoot up again.

    Taylor Barlett (Photograph by Ebti Nabag)

    Heading to the library—in your bedroom: How students are studying from home

    How Canadian college students plan to hunker down and focus with their home-study set-ups

    Stewart, a Bow Valley College nursing student, completing her lab exercises at home in June (Photograph by Candice Ward)

    How these college programs retooled in the middle of a global pandemic

    Video games, nursing scrubs at home, cardboard goggles and virtual welding. Ingenuity and improvisation allow students to train hands-on from a distance.

    Aidan D’Souza, a Seneca College student and mentor. (Photograph by Erik Putz)

    What it was like growing up at college

    Aidan D’Souza has been ‘going to’ Seneca College most of his life. He’s built websites, run cross-country and done an Instagram takeover. He also found time to earn a diploma.

    Kwantlen's Mechatronics and Advanced Manufacturing diploma program. (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)

    As automation increases, so will the demand for this job

    The move to automation is inevitable, but many human hands—and brains—are needed to make those robots run. Enter the automation technician. Here are the colleges offering a way in to this lucrative career.

    Matt Zeleny, an Applied Research Technologist, removes laser cut PPE face shields at the Camosun Innovates lab. (James MacDonald)

    How Canadian colleges rose to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

    When COVID hit, colleges jumped in—mass-producing face shields, speed-reading studies and more

    Dawson College Health Science student Arzeoo Haydari harvests greens at the theatre garden at the Dawson College campus

    In a climate-anxious world, these colleges are training students to fight back

    Colleges are hearing—and heeding—the call from students who want to make a more livable world and employers that are embracing sustainability

    Virtual galleries celebrated the graduates of the illustration and interior design programs (Dawson College)

    These Dawson College students missed out on a live gallery show. So they went virtual.

    When the arts students took their year-end exhibit to a virtual gallery, thousands of eager guests rushed to see the immersive 3D space, complete with floating avatars, virtual drinks and a bevy of interactive features

    Byrne (left) measures bull kelp near Campbell River, B.C., with NIC graduate Sally Enns (Photograph by Melissa Renwick)

    Why colleges in Canada are ‘hard-wired’ to the communities that surround them

    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