Native Education College
The Native Education College (NEC) is a college in Vancouver , West Canada , at 285 East Fifth Avenue. It is managed by the Urban Native Indian Education Society (UNIES) , a non-profit organization.
The focus of the college is on adult education , early childhood education, family counseling and support, at the same time on landscape protection, tourism, law, business administration as well as film and other arts. The starting point is the diversity of the cultures of the indigenous people of Canada, but students who are not indigenous are also admitted.
The training center has existed since 1967, but post-secondary courses have only been offered since 1979 after the current management took over the organization in 1979.
In 1985 the NEC moved to a building that has many elements of the traditional longhouse. In front of the building is a totem pole by Norman Tait, an artist of the Nisga'a , a tribe in northwestern British Columbia .
The operation should cease on July 31, 2007, as the chairman Chief David Walkem explained, because the government had changed its funding guidelines, but eight days before the closure, the Ministry of Advanced Education decided that classes in private colleges of the indigenous people would continue and to be refinanced. The college received an award of $ 140,000 a year.
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- ↑ A brief interpretation of the mythological background can be found here ( Memento from October 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '58.9 " N , 123 ° 5' 56.8" W.