Strengthening Canada’s Global Skills: Our submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Pre-budget Consultations in Advance of Budget 2024
The program has equipped a new generation of students, from all backgrounds, with global skills necessary to meet Canada’s ever evolving labour market needs. It is now time to make the program a permanent part of Canada’s skills strategy and approach to international education.
Seventy new GSO projects to support hundreds of students’ global work and study experiences
With funding from Economic and Social Development Canada, the new GSO projects will allow hundreds more Canadian students to gain invaluable global skills through international work and study experiences in countries around the world.
Final Report: GSO Cross-Country Knowledge Sharing Tour
In March 2023, Universities Canada and Colleges and Institutes Canada invited GSO implementing institutions to participate in knowledge-sharing events in cities across the country. Hosted at post-secondary institutions in Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Halifax and Montreal, these events provided universities and colleges an opportunity to connect, share their experiences and challenges in implementing their GSO projects, […]
Milestone! 5,000 Canadian students participate in GSO experiences
More than 5,000 post-secondary students have now taken the opportunity to travel and learn in countries across the globe through the Global Skills Opportunity program.
Universities Canada GSO annual report 2021-2022
This annual report details Universities Canada’s GSO activities from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022. The report offers an overview of the program, discuses program operations, reveals results to date, imparts insights from universities, shares student success stories, and presents linkages and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report closes with a […]
Colleges and Institutes Canada’s GSO annual report 2021-2022
In addition to the overview of CICan-specific program-level management activities that took place in the 2021-22 fiscal year, this report also provides a consolidation of the initial results reported by implementing institutions in the first year of their GSO project, as well as data collected from students who participated, or were participating in a GSO […]
Global Horizons: The World Re-Opens
It’s been an exciting few weeks with convocations taking place at post-secondary institutions across the country. And with the return of safe international travel, GSO students have begun their physical global experiences.
GSO Hits Milestone: 1,000+ Student Participants Have Gained International Experiences
Over the past few months, more than 1,000 Canadian post-secondary students have already embarked on life-changing and career-boosting international experiences through the GSO program. While we’d love to share all their stories, here are just a few examples: Western University students study health and aging in Scandinavia Twenty-nine students returned in mid-June from a 10-day […]