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Adult Basic Education Over 451 students were served through Adult Basic Education programming at North West College. Of the students registered, 50% self-declared as Indigenous. The successes achieved in ABE works to build student confidence and through individualized program planning, leads to post-secondary graduation and successful conversion from student to skilled employee. Essential Skills and Work Integrated Learning (WIL) North West ensures Adult Basic Education student success through Essential Skills for the Workplace (ESWP) programs. In 2020-21, North West offered an Educational Assistant ESWP program in partnership with Living Sky School Division. Living Sky School Division provided the schools, the classroom teacher/educational assistant mentor support, and Safe School training which is required for future employment with the school division. The College also offered Security Officer and Sanitation ESWP programs, which were two programs that were offered in response to the job vacancies created by the pandemic. The Security Officer program had a 77% completion rate and a 100% employment rate for the eight graduates. In addition to the programs mentioned above, NWC offered ESWP programs specializing in Mechanics that was run in partnership with Poundmaker Cree Nation, a Park Worker program was offered in Shellbrook, and a Food and Beverage program that was offered at Meadow Lake Campus. In total, the College offered eight ESWP programs during the 2020-21 year. Evening Adult Basic Education Programs – Offer Alternatives North West in the Battlefords has significant waitlists for Adult Basic Education programming. The College initiated the tri-semester system in 2017-18 as a solution not only to address waitlists, but to provide increased success to students with complicated lives. This continues as a good solution and has reduced the wait time on the waitlist for students. Over the years, the College has offered 30 Level math and sciences in the evenings for people transitioning from work to post-secondary. The use of Chromebooks and Learning Management System such as Google Classroom has also helped the students with the transition into post-secondary or work.
NORTH WEST COLLEGE • 2020-2021 ANNUAL REPORT
