Colleges Ontario

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Colleges Ontario is the advocacy organization for the province's 24 colleges of applied arts and technology.

Colleges Ontario is committed to the future strength of the province and the country. We advance policies and awareness campaigns to ensure Ontario produces the highly skilled workforce that is essential to our province's prosperity.

We are committed to an Ontario where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

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Conestoga rises to the top.(LOCAL) The Record (Kitchener, Ontario); 9/11/2009 ...growth in enrolment among the province's community colleges. Ontario's 24 community colleges saw enrolment for first...full-time and 350,000 part-time students. Colleges Ontario CEO Linda Franklin says about 90 per cent of college... ...more

Credit transfer system is vital.(Editorial) The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario); 8/13/2009 ...achieve that goal by making higher education more accessible to more students. Linda Franklin, President and CEO, Colleges Ontario, Tyler Charlebois, Director of Advocacy, College Student Alliance The president of Ontario's faculty union expressed... ...more

Do your homework; For-profit schools don't always operate by the book.(Business) The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 8/1/2009 ...Ontario's community colleges. A few statistics tell the story. The 2008 key performance indicators released by Colleges Ontario, the community college association, shows an average graduation rate of 64.6 per cent for the public institutions... ...more