Co-operative Education
Co-operative education provides an opportunity for students to gain valuable experience in the workplace and for the employer to assess a potential career employee.
We ask employers:
Provide productive jobs relevant to a student's field of study
Provide appropriate remuneration, safe working conditions, supervision, training and evaluation
Ensure that jobs and places of work are in compliance with all relevant government statutes and legislation
Assume responsibility for the co-op student, as you would for any other employee, for the period of the co-op employment
Accommodate a site visit from a Ryerson coop co-ordinator, where possible, during the student's work term
Complete an Employer Evaluation for each student's performance. A student needs an evaluation to receive credit for the work term
Consult with the Ryerson Co-op Office or one of its co-op co-ordinators prior to undertaking disciplinary action or dismissal of a co-op student
Inform the student and the co-ordinator of the intention to rehire the student prior to the end of the work term, where applicable
Employer Evaluation & Work Term Report
Supervision of the student and evaluation of student performance are carried out by the employer. During each work term, the Co-op Coordinator will normally send, or deliver during a site visit, an Employer Evaluation for each student. The work place supervisor is asked to complete the Employer Evaluation Report and submit it to the Office of Co-operative Education. Evaluation of the student by the employer provides the Office of Co-operative Education with an assessment of the work performance of each student.
Students are also required to write a Work Term Report that outlines:
the nature of the work that they have done
their particular duties
their role in the organization
the concepts that have been learned during the work experience
It is the co-op student's responsibility to ensure that the Work Term Report & Employer Evaluation is submitted to the respective Co-op Faculty Advisor at Ryerson within one month of the completed work term.
Students receive credit for each of their work terms based on the completion of a Work Term Report combined with an acceptable Employer Evaluation.
Confidential Work Term Reports
In cases where the student has worked on a project that is confidential and the company does not wish to expose proprietary information, the employer is asked to complete a Confidential Evaluation of Work Term Report that is available from the Office of Co-operative Education.
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