The Business + Higher Education Roundtable (BHER) is expanding its national work-integrated learning (WIL) network with five new delivery partners committed to building talent pipelines in Alberta, Quebec, and the Atlantic region.
Workforce capacity is increasingly a constraint on growth, but our partners are working together to strengthen WIL and build a more productive, inclusive, and job-ready workforce. Our newest WIL partners reach underrepresented areas of Canada’s WIL ecosystem, and along with our 23 existing partners, will help develop the skilled workforce needed to drive Canada’s productivity, economic growth, and major industrial investments.
BHER is transforming Canada’s WIL landscape to not only meet evolving labour market needs, but to also position WIL as a core component of the nation’s talent infrastructure.
Our New Delivery Partners:
The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) will strengthen regional talent pipelines by expanding curricular WIL across engineering, business, and kinesiology programs to align student training with PEI’s SME-driven economy.
In Québec, École de Technologie Supérieure, Québec International and Université de Sherbrooke are expanding placement capacity and strengthening institutional systems and SME participation for sustained WIL growth across Québec.
Tech-Access Canada will be working with post-secondary institutions across Quebec, Alberta, and New Brunswick to expand access to applied research-based WIL through coordinated industry engagement and project matching. This approach will expand placement capacity, strengthen SME innovation, and build a distributed, cross-provincial talent pipeline.
With generous support from the Government of Canada, BHER is working with post-secondary institutions and industry to create thousands of new WIL opportunities that connect classroom learning and the real-world skills required in high-growth sectors. BHER is committed to ensuring that every post-secondary student in Canada gets a WIL opportunity before they graduate.
Our Delivery Partners