President Johnston talks co-op and its impact beyond graduation
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President David Johnston's report to the campus gave this bit of Canada-wide news: "Ipsos-Reid has released a mini-report on the topic of the impact of co-op education programs on Canadians. The online poll of 1,493 Canadians revealed, among other things, that 17 per cent of Canadians with post-secondary experience had either studied, or were in the process of studying, in a co-operative education stream. The study also found that the province of Ontario, perhaps not surprisingly, is the hotbed of co-op participation. Nearly a quarter of Ontarians with post-secondary experience had been in a co-op program at some point, compared to 7 per cent in Quebec, 16 per cent in the West, and 14 per cent in the Atlantic provinces. Fully half of those who did not participate in co-operative education say if they could do their undergraduate education over again, they would do a co-op program. The study also found that the vast majority of Canadians who enrolled in co-op education programs felt their work term had a significant impact on their career choice, getting their first job, their workplace integration, and their academic learning. . . . This is a ringing endorsement of the idea of co-operative education and the mission of this university."
cecs.uwaterloo.ca/.../...
President David Johnston's report to the campus gave this bit of Canada-wide news: "Ipsos-Reid has released a mini-report on the topic of the impact of co-op education programs on Canadians. The online poll of 1,493 Canadians revealed, among other things, that 17 per cent of Canadians with post-secondary experience had either studied, or were in the process of studying, in a co-operative education stream. The study also found that the province of Ontario, perhaps not surprisingly, is the hotbed of co-op participation. Nearly a quarter of Ontarians with post-secondary experience had been in a co-op program at some point, compared to 7 per cent in Quebec, 16 per cent in the West, and 14 per cent in the Atlantic provinces. Fully half of those who did not participate in co-operative education say if they could do their undergraduate education over again, they would do a co-op program. The study also found that the vast majority of Canadians who enrolled in co-op education programs felt their work term had a significant impact on their career choice, getting their first job, their workplace integration, and their academic learning. . . . This is a ringing endorsement of the idea of co-operative education and the mission of this university."