When working on a paper for another MET course, I discovered that a lack of remote/flexible approaches in publicly funded post secondary institutions limits the availability of education to Indigenous Peoples living in areas such as reserves. This is demonstrated by the Aboriginal peoples census data in 2016 which reports that only 37% of all Indigenous people living on reserves in B.C. had completed high school by age 25 (Statistics Canada, 2020).
Given that this is only pertaining to people living on reserve, I wonder about the statistics for those not living on reserve – are they better or the same?
Most health care education programs require high school and even post-secondary level pre-requisites, along with a high GPA. This makes these programs, such as nursing, unavailable for many Indigenous students living on reserve.
https://www.bcit.ca/programs/nursing-bachelor-of-science-in-nursing-full-time-8875bsn/#entry
Statistics Canada. (2020, January 14). 2016 census aboriginal community portrait – British Columbia. Statcan.Gc.Ca. https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd