Colleges Guide 2021

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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