Alberta colleges seek to graduate to polytechnic university status to halt urban drift

Two Alberta colleges want to graduate to polytechnic university status to combat the urban drift of young, talented students moving to metropolitan centres like Edmonton and Calgary and never returning.
Under Red Deer College and Grande Prairie Regional College’s proposals, they would combine four of the province’s six-sector models into one new category while including pathways to the remaining two sectors, effectively making an education super-centre capable of offering everything