Northern Lakes College

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 is a member of the Alberta Rural Development Network.

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

The following communities are served by Northern Lakes College: ^[3]

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]

• Education in Alberta
• List of universities and colleges in Alberta

• Northern Lakes College

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