Students at Yukon College are seen in this file image. This past week, the Yukon legislature passed a bill to make Yukon College a university. It will be an institution with an Indigenous flavour that will make it as unique as the region it is to serve.
Nunavut and the Northwest Territories have colleges that teach courses toward degrees from southern institutions and have announced plans to broaden their post-secondary offerings. The institution, which will also offers trades programs, will allow northerners to further their education closer to home. Accessibility is key for the institution, said Ullyett, and its tuition is to remain in the bottom third of comparable southern institutions.Research is to centre on issues around environmental conservation and sustainable resource development. It will be conducted in a new, $26-million science building funded by Ottawa and currently being designed.
"If you're going to live and work in the North, you're living and working in the traditional territories of an Indigenous group. It makes sense that you understand that context."
Another /0 million or so down the drain. The Yukon has a population of 75,000 and less than 1% go onto university. Hardly enough to justify a university there!
Wouldn't go there
Is this a picture of Yukon college or just a random picture of a school?