????凯蒂?费多森科是另一个例子。凯蒂于2011年毕业，获得了英属哥伦比亚大学的英语文学学士学位。凯蒂参加产学合作教育课程，是为了探索英语文学毕业生的职业选择机会。她首先为当地非营利性组织英属哥伦比亚肺脏协会组织大型募资活动，主动学习新的计算机设计课程。在此经验基础上，她获得了另一份产学合作工作，担任英属哥伦比亚大学最大的学院艺术学院联络处的网络联络员。她具备了撰写在线文章、简介和社交媒体宣传文章的经验，毕业后迅速获得了工作机会——在加拿大最大的矿业公司Tech Resources企业事务部担任公关协调员。凯蒂的工作学期发挥了至关重要的作用，使她比其他英语文学专业毕业生更加优秀，也为她毕业后找到工作建立了人脉关系。

????滑铁卢大学的产学合作教育课程去年提供了1.9万多个实习岗位，是加拿大规模最大、也是历史最悠久的产学合作教育课程，但是还有许多大学也开设产学合作教育课程。加拿大强大的产学合作教育生态系统可部分归功于一个事实，即加拿大是世界上唯一一个拥有国家产学合作教育课程认可体系的国家。该体系由加拿大产学合作教育协会负责管理。这使得加拿大能在全国各地持续开发优质课程。

????通过帮助企业聘用上进心强且聪明的产学合作教育学生来支持企业创新，产学合作教育课程不仅能够助推企业走向成功，也能够为其人才梯队提供永久性员工。加拿大最大的金融机构之一加拿大皇家银行总裁兼CEO大卫?麦凯伊表示，“产学合作教育已经成为一种久经考验的方法，它能够培养学生适应迅速变化和充满复杂挑战的社会。这是创新经济的关键因素。”麦凯伊重点强调，通过为来自不同背景、不具备“有时获得第一份工作需要的文化和家庭关系”的学生提供“通往就业大门”的机会，产学合作教育课程还充当着“社会平衡者”的角色。

????随着加拿大大学继续创新和探索与当地、国家和国际组织合作的方式，产学合作教育有可能在联系课堂和实际工作、培养迎接21世纪复杂挑战的下一代大学毕业生方面发挥更大的作用。或许，其他国家可以从加拿大产学合作教育的教学和商业效益中吸取经验，尝试开发类似的课程。（财富中文网）

????Or take the story of Katie Fedosenko, who graduated in 2011 with her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from UBC. Katie came into the co-op program wanting to explore career options for an English Literature graduate. She started co-op organizing major fundraising events for a large, local non-profit, the BC Lung Association, taking initiative to learn new computer design programs. With this experience, she secured another co-op job as a web communicator in the Communications Office at the University of BC’s largest faculty, Arts. With experience writing online articles, profiles, and social media outreach, Katie secured a job shortly after graduation as Communications Coordinator in the Corporate Affairs department of Tech Resources, Canada’s largest mining company.Katie’s co-op work terms were pivotal in helping her distinguish herself from other English Literature graduates, and make connections that led to work after graduation.

????The University of Waterloo’s co-op program, with over 19,000 placements last year, is the largest and oldest in Canada, but many other universities and colleges offer co-op programs too. Canada’s strong ecosystem of co-op programs stems in part from the fact that we are the only country in the world with a national accreditation system for co-op programs, run by the Canadian Association for Co-operative Education. This has helped Canada grow consistently high quality programs in virtually every region of the country.

????Co-op programs help businesses succeed by giving them a way to hire highly motivated, smart co-op students to support business innovation, and then feed their talent pipelines for permanent hires. David McKay, President and CEO of one the Royal Bank of Canada, one of Canada’s largest financial institutions, says that “co-op education has become a proven way to prepare students for a world in which change is accelerating and challenges are growing ever more complex. They’re essential to our creative and disruptive economy”. And McKay makes the important point that co-op programs can also act as a “social leveler” by giving students from diverse backgrounds who may not have “the cultural and family ties that sometimes lead ot the first job” a chance to “get their foot through the employment door”.

????As Canadian universities continue to innovate and seek ways to work in partnership with local, national, and international organizations, co-operative education has the potential to play an even greater role in bridging the classroom and the work world, preparing the next generation of university graduates to take on the complex challenges of the 21st century. Perhaps other countries can learn from the educational and business benefits of co-operative education here in Canada and look to develop similar programs themselves.