Final report of the independent Task Force on Northern Post-Secondary Education, A Shared Responsibility: Northern Voices, Northern Solutions — Report of the Task Force on Northern Post-Secondary Education.
“Finding innovative solutions to improve education opportunities and outcomes in Canada’s North and Arctic”
We also take this opportunity to thank the many stakeholders, including those who participated in engagement sessions, territorial governments, Indigenous partners and organizations, leaders in education in northern jurisdictions and elsewhere, and other Arctic and Northern Policy Framework partners, who contributed to and supported this work. Every Canadian should have access to quality education and skills training no matter where they live. Northern residents, especially Indigenous Peoples, have faced longstanding inequities in education and skills training for too long.
This report highlights the challenges and barriers that exist across the North in accessing post-secondary education and identifies important strengths and new opportunities for culturally relevant, northern-based, northern-focused and northern-led post-secondary programs and institutions.
The report provides expert advice that will help the Government of Canada—together with Indigenous, territorial and provincial partners, and educational institutions in the North and Arctic—to discuss barriers and possible solutions to providing Northerners with greater access to local high-quality education, ongoing learning and skills development opportunities, and culturally relevant higher education, including greater Indigenous-based knowledge and skills.
The 37 Calls to Action are included within the following themes:
- Recognition and use of Indigenous ways of knowing, doing and being (1)
- The K-12 foundation (7)
- Local delivery and access (6)
- Wrap around support ( 3)
- Housing (2)
- Financing (3)
- Equitable access to distance and virtual post-secondary education (1)
- Credentialing, faculty and programs (7)
- Research (4)
- Admission requirements and processes (1)
- Francophone support (2)
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