Northern Lakes College is a publicly funded comprehensive community college in northern Alberta, Canada.
Administrative offices are located in Slave Lake and Grouard, Alberta, with a staff of more than 275 working in more than 25 community campuses. The college connects students from throughout the region with the latest in real-time teaching and learning technology to create manageable class cohorts.
The college offers education and training programs that include: trades and apprenticeship, career education, university studies and work force development. Career choices include the following:[2]
Business Administration
Community Liaison
Forestry
Health Care
Office Administration
Paramedicine
Petroleum
Power Engineering
Practical Nurse
Production Field Operations
Rehabilitation Therapy
Social Work
Teaching
Locations
The following communities are served by Northern Lakes College:
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In 1970 and 1971, in Grouard, Alberta, First Nations students received adult education basic training to prepare to become instructors in Community Vocational Centres (CVC's) area.[1]
In 1988 the Alberta Vocational Centre in Grouard amalgamated with a network of 26 community vocational centres for First Nations students in northern Alberta to form the Alberta Vocational College.[1] The governance of the converted into a college governed by a public board from a provincially administered school on September 1, 1997.[1]
The current name, Northern Lakes College, replaced the name Alberta Vocational College on August 25, 1999.[1]
