• • Providing peer-assisted study sessions.
  • Providing adequate student housing and support to find housing, in particular family and couples’ accommodation as many Aboriginal students go to college with dependents.
• Enhance education and program delivery by:
  • Creating and developing preparatory courses for trades programs.
  • Improving curriculum content and delivery by moving to learning outcomes approaches and ensuring programs are more culturally relevant with more Aboriginal knowledge.
  • Revising mainstream college/institute programs that serve a high Aboriginal population, such as Social Work, Child and Youth Care, to ensure they are inclusive and reflect the contributions of Aboriginal Peoples.
  • Offering more programming specific to languages, history and culture of Aboriginal peoples.
  • Ensuring adequate literacy programming is offered.
  • Looking at improved models of delivery. Currently the main options are campus- based or community-based. Hybrid models could be considered which combine campus, community and perhaps some distance delivery to increase students’ access to postsecondary.
  • Retooling program advisory committees to make them more current and increase their effectiveness.
  • Providing more funds for access or bridging programs in order to ensure better success rates.
  • Providing more funds for distance education program to reach more Aboriginal learners in rural and remote regions.

Enhance practices, approaches, services and programs aimed at facilitating Aboriginal students’ introduction to and participation in the labour market by:

• Developing mentor programs with graduates from college and institute programs or with tradespersons or professionals already working in careers related to students’ field of study.
• Introducing work-based learning within Aboriginal communities.
• Fostering stronger linkages with industry and business.
• Ensuring programs focus on available career opportunities.
• Working more closely with employers in developing programs that would enhance Aboriginal employment.
• Developing work/study programs and arranging internships in Aboriginal organizations.