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An in-person event taking place November 23 - 25, 2024 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel. For more information, please visit: www.highereducationsummit.ca.
Colleges Ontario is the advocacy voice for the province's 24 colleges.
What's new
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Laura Jamer as the new vice president of policy and innovation at Colleges Ontario, effective September 3, 2024. She is an accomplished leader with experience in both the Ontario public service and the public college sector.
Domee Shi, Academy Award-winning director and Sheridan College alumna, will be a featured speaker at the 2024 Higher Education Summit in Toronto.
Colleges Ontario is pleased to announce that its president and CEO, Marketa Evans, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) conference on “Strengthening the Connection Between Ontario’s Public Colleges and Municipalities.”
Geoffrey Hinton, British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist and a leading figure in artificial intelligence, will be a keynote speaker at the 2024 Higher Education Summit in Toronto.
A moment with Marketa
Canada’s Future Skills Council recently released a new report, Canada – A Learning Nation: A Skilled, Agile Workforce Ready to Shape the Future. The goal is to build a sustainable workforce. Clearly, colleges will be pivotal to the success of those recommendations.
Did you know that as of right now, colleges can offer and deliver four-year degrees but not three-year degrees? Instead, colleges are required to offer three-year advanced diplomas in many areas important to the economy.
This is something of a global anomaly. In most of the world, post-secondary programs that are essentially the same as our colleges’ three-year programs award degrees to graduates rather than diplomas.
Events
The Premier's Awards gala celebrates Ontario's outstanding college graduates. For more information please, visit: www.co-awards.org.