In 1960s, in order to meet the demand of economic development for talents, Canada established a college system and passed a series of legislation. Up to now, there are more than 120 colleges in China, and 25 colleges in Ontario have165,000 full-time students and 850,000 amateur students. Each college is divided into an area for enrollment, and students are enrolled nearby. Admissions are made by applying for admission, three times a year and three semesters. There are many majors in the college. For example, Lyerson College offers more than 65,438+0,000 courses, offers 68 certificates and has a 350-page enrollment handbook. College courses meet the needs of all levels, including adult culture tutorial, apprenticeship training, technical education, vocational education, pre-university (continuing education), short-term training and so on. The college has a wide range of enrollment, such as high school graduates with grades above C in English and mathematics, those with grades below C but above 19, employees, unemployed people, underemployed people, college graduates and so on. There are various forms of running a college, including full-time, half-day, night school and distance education. The scale of running a college is relatively large, with thousands of full-time colleges and tens of thousands of amateur colleges.

Characteristics of Canadian community colleges:

(1) management, closely combining the actual situation of the industry and social needs, and managing education as an industry. In the words of university professors, it is called:? Selling and peddling education? The academic affairs office of the college is set as the reception desk of the hotel, and there are many smiling staff to serve teachers and students at any time. Colleges with an annual income of hundreds of millions of Canadian dollars are common.

② Openness: The enrollment of many colleges faces the whole country and the whole world, and the facilities of colleges are highly socialized. All stadiums, restaurants and apartments are socialized and open to the public. A large number of branch schools have also been established to run schools in enterprises, universities and other countries and regions.

(3) Practicality: Colleges, trade associations and employers' associations are closely combined to develop professional courses that adapt to the actual production, and to carry out teaching with the ability as the goal, so that students can achieve something and get quick results. ? Go to college to find a good job, find a good job to go to college? Become people's knowledge.

(4) Sustainability: The academic education of the college is implemented according to strict ability standards and is recognized by many universities at home and abroad. College graduates can continue to study in universities, which recognize college credits. After one or two years of study (different majors), you can get a university diploma and degree.

⑤ Management effectiveness: The school implements the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the school board. The school board is composed of 17 people, including government officials, business representatives, principals, administrators and students. It meets regularly and is responsible for approving budgets, approving contracts, appointing and dismissing principals, coordinating the relationship between teachers and students, and deciding to open new branches and close them. And do not interfere with the daily management of the school. There are three groups of personnel under the principal: educational affairs, finance and personnel, which are in charge of three vice-principals, and the subordinates are divided into departments, teaching and research sections and professional groups.

Advantages of attending a community college:

1 the cost is low, and the cost of studying in community colleges is only half that of ordinary universities.

The advantages of education are obvious. Community colleges can lay a very solid learning foundation for students, and exercise their independent learning and thinking ability, which is conducive to future study.

Strong guarantee for applying for a prestigious university. Through two years' study in community college, students have better basic knowledge and greatly enhanced their learning ability, and they have an advantage over other high school graduates when applying for prestigious schools. At the same time, you can transfer credits from community colleges, and then you can get an undergraduate degree from a famous university in less than two years.

In a word, community college education embodies the characteristics of universal education, university connection education and lifelong education in Canada. Community college education has become an important part of Canadian education, which has made important preparations and improvements for foreign students' study and given students with different backgrounds a wider choice.

Several famous community colleges:

Algonquin College, Cambridge Institute of Technology, BC Institute of Technology, George Brown College.

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