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What is CEI?
The College Expansion Initiative was created by Order-in-Council
to fulfill the Government's pledge to increase college enrolment
in certificate and diploma programs. The Government's direction
is captured in the Initiative's Operational Framework, which has
been endorsed by the four public colleges: Assiniboine Community
College (ACC), École technique et professionnelle (ETP),
Red River College (RRC), and University College of the North (UCN).
Operating Framework
The College Expansion Initiative is intended to be a catalyst
for the growth and evolution of Manitoba's college-system and is
strongly supported by Government which has established a dramatic
increase in training opportunities for all Manitobans as an economic
priority.
The Initiative addresses the need to reverse the chronic underdevelopment
of colleges, which is hampering provincial prosperity and has relegated
Manitoba to the bottom of inter-provincial training comparison.
Note: CEI’s Operating Framework was shared
with, and approved by, all four colleges.
Goals
The College Expansion Initiative was established to:
- Address labour market needs by reducing important skill shortages
- Pay particular attention to the needs of under-served groups
- Enhance youth participation rates
- Improve student success by concentrating on retention and graduation
rates
- Encourage innovative means to make the system more efficient,
e.g. Prior Learning Assessment (PLA), learning technologies, etc.
- Stimulate workplace-based programming that improves the skills
of those in the existing workforce
Operational Assumptions
CEI operates under the assumptions that it will:
- Invest in cost-effective programming that fosters and maintains
a comprehensive college-system
- Encourage programs that enhance the linkages between colleges,
between the colleges and the universities and between the colleges
and the secondary school system in order to achieve a more co-ordinated
approach to labour market development
- Enhance the linkages between the colleges and business and industry
that have been carefully forged over the years
- Ensure that new programming meshes with key socioeconomic policy
areas given the close connection between economic prosperity and
training
- Build upon the strengths of the colleges and, through investments
in new programs, refine their respective roles
- Recognize that Red River College, because of its size and location,
plays a lead role in developing and maintaining the system's comprehensiveness
- Use existing infrastructure as much as possible
Responsibility
of The Council on Post-Secondary Education
The Council on Post-Secondary Education will:
- Grant final approval of all program proposals
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