Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) is the national and international voice of Canada’s publicly supported colleges, institutes of technology, cégeps, polytechnics and universities with a college mandate.
The partnership includes $16.3 million, funded in part by the Government of Canada's Innovative Work-Integrated Learning program to CEWIL to fund grants that will enable the creation of curricular work-integrated learning (WIL) focusing primarily on applied research/industry projects, entrepreneurial WIL, field placements, and service-learning WIL. CEWIL is accepting proposals for 8150 WIL experiences through its new CEWIL Innovation Hub (iHUB), a centre of expertise that supports the advancement, innovation and access to WIL while ensuring projects are delivered with appropriate quality and learning standards for students.
Nearly sixty percent (59%) of educators and administrators say they aren’t sure or haven’t received new cybersecurity initiatives or training for remote learning, despite 78% of educators saying they’re currently utilizing some type of online learning.
Canada's 147 public universities spent $28.9 billion during the 2018/2019 academic year and had revenues of $30.7 billion. To assess the potential financial impact of the pandemic on universities, projection scenarios were developed and indicate that they could be facing losses ranging from $377 million (-0.8%) to $3.4 billion (-7.5%) in 2020/2021.
An increasing share of total university and college enrolments have come from international sources in recent years. During the 2017/2018 academic year, 14.7% and 13.2% of all university and college enrolments were international, respectively. Given the ongoing uncertainties around the COVID-19 pandemic and the new public health restrictions imposed on international travel, physical distancing guidelines affecting classroom structures, and the real possibility that many programs may have to be delivered online, the share of enrolments in various academic programs that are international is of high relevance at the moment.