A route to explore · Ontario

I want college or an apprenticeship, but I may be missing the entry skills or courses.

Build missing academic skills before further training

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Your starting point

Identify the requirements of your intended next program.

A pathway helps you explore. It does not decide eligibility or guarantee admission, funding, licensing or work. Each program has its own checked date.

01 / Start with your situation

Your first steps

Identify the requirements of your intended next program.
Arrange Confederation's academic-upgrading assessment and an individual learning plan.
Confirm the destination institution accepts the upgrading courses; ask about transport and childcare subsidies.

02 / Compare real options

Programs and organizations to explore

Open a program to see requirements, costs, funding and the official starting point.

Confederation College

Academic Upgrading — Get SET →

Individualized academic and workplace skills preparation toward further study, apprenticeship or work.

Ongoing enquiries or individual applications · No program fee

Checked October 20, 2026 How we check information

Requirements, funding and where to start →

03 / Check affordability

Possible funding

See each program’s funding section and ask its provider about your eligibility and full costs. No pathway-wide funding is guaranteed.

04 / Before you commit

Important distinctions

Tuition-free upgrading is not automatic admission to another program.
This is one mapped northern option; more local upgrading providers remain to research.