To help manage the influx of new business spurred by the pandemic, Skip the Dishes called Red River College Polytechnic (RRC Polytech) in Winnipeg and asked for help at the start of the year. The food delivery network requested a set of courses be designed to train the Winnipeg-based company’s work force as they grew and brought in a wave of new hires.

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When Guillermo Acosta looks out the window at Humber College’s Faculty of Media & Creative Arts he sees a fleet of construction cranes, but also something else — the future of how education, industry and the arts will work together.

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If you want to understand how the environmental studies landscape in Canada has changed, think back to Walkerton, says Sean Beingessner.

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When Larissa Meleiro walked into her first day of her hospitality internship at a Hampton by Hilton hotel in Toronto, she knew she was ready to be there.

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Krysten Payne, whose father was a teacher, remembers being strongly encouraged to choose university over college after high school.

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At Kwantlen Polytechnic University in British Columbia, the bachelor of psychiatric nursing students learn a holistic approach to mental health care. Fittingly, their own education takes a holistic approach too.

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Trish Josephs knows what industry customers want from polytechnic institutions. As an executive at many businesses over the past 30 years, she liaised with schools about the kind of workers industry needed.

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