- Aurora College:
- Three year nursing diploma program. Upon the completion of their
third year, nursing students only have to leave the Northwest
Territories for one year to obtain their Bachelor in Nursing at the
University of Victoria. The college is also working towards enabling
students to do all four years in North and still obtain the degree from
the University of Victoria.
- Teacher Education with an agreement with the University of
Saskatchewan.
- Social work degree with the University of Regina whereby students
take 2 years at the college and 2 years with the university.
- Management Studies with Athabasca University for which students
can apply directly to the university with the completion of 2 years at
the college.
- Nunavut Arctic College:
- Three joint degree programs are currently being offered: nursing in
partnership with Dalhousie University, Teacher Education with McGill
University, as well as a law degree program for one cohort, with
University of Victoria, which may or may not have enough funding be
repeated.
- Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT):
- SIIT has block transfers with the University of Lethbridge, University of
Victoria and Athabasca University.
- University College of the North (UCN):
- UCN has a Committee on Transfer of Credit and the Business
Administration Program is offered via distance education through the
University of Manitoba.
3.6.6 Distance Education Programs
The Assembly of First Nations has recommended that in order to improve
accessibility there is a need to acknowledge and support distance education for
Aboriginal students in rural and remote communities.13 Colleges and institutes’
responses to the on-line survey and interviews confirmed that institutions view
distance education as a means to reaching Aboriginal learners in rural and
remote areas. Many would like to deliver more distance education but cannot
due to funding constraints.
In all, one third of participating institutions confirmed that they offer distance
education programs which benefit Aboriginal learners. In the case of mainstream
institutions, these are mostly regular program offerings which are also available
to Aboriginal learners. The program and course offerings vary and include:
- Nova Scotia Community College offers standard required courses via
distance education such as Occupational Health and Safety;
- University College of the North has distance education programs in
Nursing, Home Care, and Early Childhood delivered by a combination of
video conferencing and computer based;