Hindustan Times Leadership Summit – India, December 2019
betterU, the only education partner for India’s prestigious leadership conference.
HT MINT Asia Leadership Summit – Singapore, September 2019
betterU, in partnership with Hindustan Times, sponsored and supported the 2nd annual HT Mint Asia Leadership Summit in Singapore.
betterU was also selected as one of 16 global speakers and invited to share how their work is impacting education delivery around the world. Other speakers included the Former Prime Minister of the UK, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Chairman of TATA, CEO of Singtel, and more.
NSDC – betterU Press Conference – India, July 2019
betterU and the National Skills Development Corporation entered into an agreement to advance the efforts of Skill India.
Disruption for Good – Necker Island, December 2018
betterU was invited to attend the Disruption for Good event hosted by Sir Richard Branson. Global leaders had the opportunity to come together to share ideas and discuss better ways of solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.
Canadian Bureau for International Education
betterU has been a key partner for Canada's largest education conference for many years, engaging with hundreds of college and university leaders.
betterU a key speaker at Carleton University
betterU was invited to speak at Carleton University about their global efforts for Education to Employment. Speaking along side the Ambassador of India and Minster Bain, betterU address an audience of Ottawa's top educational and business leaders.
betterU partners with Economic Times to host Skills Development leadership forum.
betterU brought together leaders from government, corporate and industry to discuss the scope of challenges and solutions to solve access to proper skills development programs to ensure work ready students to employment. The industry CEOs, heads of institutions and senior government officials spoke for hours about how to effectively collaborate to solve some of the most complicated education to employment challenges.
betterU was invited to sit with Prime Minister Harper and Prime Minister Modi during his historic visit to Canada.
betterU's CEO along with 13 other CEO's from Canadian companies such as Air Canada, Blackberry, Sunlife as well as several top banking and senior government officials spent over an hour in discussions during this historical visit. This was the first time in over 40 years that India's Prime Minister had visited Canada.
betterU invited to speak at Pioneer Summit in San Francisco
betterU's CEO discusses the educational challenges faced across North America and the solutions being developed to support educators, corporates and learners.
More about our Journey
Take a moment to learn more about betterU and what we have been doing to support those in need of a better education.
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
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Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Internships may occur in the middle of an academic program or after all academic coursework has been completed and prior to graduation. Internships can be of any length but are typically 12 to 16 months long.
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Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
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Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
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Co-op alternating consists of alternating academic terms and paid work terms. Co-op internship consists of several co-op work terms back-to-back. In both models, work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study. The number of required work terms varies by program; however, the time spent in work terms must be at least 30% of the time spent in academic study for programs over 2 years in length and 25% of time for programs 2 years and shorter in length.
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Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
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Apprenticeship is an agreement between a person (an apprentice) who wants to learn a skill and an employer who needs a skilled worker and who is willing to sponsor the apprentice and provide paid related practical experience under the direction of a certified journeyperson in a work environment conducive to learning the tasks, activities and functions of a skilled worker. Apprenticeship combines about 80% at-the-workplace experience with 20% technical classroom training, and depending on the trade, takes about 2-5 years to complete. Both the workplace experience and the technical training are essential components of the learning experience.
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Entrepreneurship allows a student to leverage resources, space, mentorship and/or funding to engage in the early-stage development of business start-ups and/or to advance external ideas that address real-world needs for academic credit.
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Applied Research students are engaged in research that occurs primarily in workplaces, including consulting projects, design projects, and community-based research projects.
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Both the Ontario and the Quebec governments provide a Co-operative Education Tax Credit to businesses hiring students enrolled in a recognized CO-OP education program.
NEW: Enhancing the Co-operative Education Tax Credit
The 2009 Ontario Budget introduced enhancements to the Co-operative Education Tax Credit (CETC), effective for eligible expenditures incurred after March 26, 2009, that will:
increase the 10 per cent CETC rate to 25 per cent and the enhanced 15 per cent rate for small businesses to 30 per cent;
increase the maximum tax credit available from $1,000 to $3,000 per work placement.
There are opportunities that could help financial support employers.
For other programs on funding, please visit the following web sites:
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
