Colleges Ontario is the advocacy and outreach association of Ontario’s 21 Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology and three College Institutes of Technology and Advanced Learning.
Colleges Ontario advocates for policy improvements and measures that will help produce the skilled workforce that is needed to strengthen Ontario’s competitive advantage.
Colleges Ontario provides strategic counsel and services to advance Ontario’s colleges as a learning resource of choice and a key gateway to both Ontario’s and Canada’s success.
Colleges Ontario’s services to colleges include:
•advocacy and communications
•research and policy development
•information co-ordination
•professional development
Colleges Ontario’s current activities include:
•co-ordinating advocacy and outreach campaigns for policy improvements that support colleges in their role as a major contributor to employability, economic development and technological innovation
•publishing newsletters, reports, directories and briefing material to support planning and outreach
•building the Ontario college leadership network through meetings, workshops, and conferences
•providing research support for advocacy and policy development issues such as funding, governance, student access, transferability and retention
Colleges Ontario is financed by all member colleges on a voluntary basis, with dues assessed according to enrolment, and by OCAS.
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Scholar's Choice is the largest retailer of educational toys and teaching materials for parents, teachers, early childhood educators, schools and childcare centres in Canada. Our vision is to give every child a reason to love learning so they can achieve their hopes and dreams.
We have been doing this since 1939 through our website, direct mail catalogues and retail stores. 15% of the world's population are children but they represent 100% of the FUTURE! What we do to support young children to achieve their hopes and dreams will be our greatest LEGACY! The KEY is education cemented in the early years by PARENTS and EDUCATORS working together. It is about getting young children off screens and learning how to play again.
Our core values support us in our day to day actions as part of our company culture:
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