Education Council

Like other colleges in BC, Okanagan College is governed by the College and Institute Act of British Columbia The Act establishes a bicameral system of institutional governance.    In this dual governance structure both the Board of Governors and Education Council (EdCo) are assigned roles and responsibilities.

The powers and duties of Education Council are described in three sections of the Act. These powers and duties are:

• the sole responsibility to set curriculum content, academic standards, and certain policies outlined in Section 24 of the Act ;

• the joint responsibility with the Board on matters related to course transfer and other  matters agreed to by the Board and Education Council, covered in Section 25 of the Act ;

• the advisory responsibility for providing advice to the Board on the development of educational policies and a number of broad institutional issues defined by Section 23 of the Act.



The meeting schedule for Education Council (and its subcommittees) is available here . Education Council's schedule is the leftmost two columns.