Pacific Link College (PLC) has been innovating the education landscape in Canada by building programs and partnerships that lead students to the careers of which they dream. Our success in post secondary education has made us one of the fastest-growing institutions in Canada. Our specialty is international students, for whom we have built student support from recruiting to academics to co-op and post-graduate care.
PLC has always emphasized providing quality, innovative, practical education. These factors are key In helping students succeed in their goals: most notably in getting employment. PLC has done all this via a strong focus on student services and assistance, as well as learning strategies that combine teaching by industry leaders with guest lectures and industry visits. Co-op placement in the industry also plays a key role in student success; hence PLC has a dedicated co-op department to guarantee placement. Starting with the launch of its career programs, PLC also emphasized the importance of diversity in students, faculty and staff.
Established in 2011, PLC began by focusing on language instruction, which to this day is offered to international students. Aer opening its first career-centred campus in Guildford, Surrey, British Columbia, PLC quickly opened its second campus in neighbouring Burnaby as we saw the rapid expansion of the college recruiting and support teams across the globe.
PLC works with multiple academic partners in Canada and worldwide. In Canada, PLC works with language schools and cultural institutions, as well as post secondary institutions. We were the firstto have a limited-term partnership with the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver in which PLC students got to experience prototyping digital strategies as part of a creative exchange. Current partners include Corpus Christi College and Trinity Western University. PLC also has multipleinstitutional partners across the globe, as well as offices in key strategic regions.
PLC’s strategic initiatives are to grow its brand both nationally and globally while attracting a truly diverse body of students that reflect the future of Canada.In order to carry out these initiatives, we are increasing our presence in Canada by adding a new campus in Montreal, Quebec. This move allows for an increased presence for PLC into central Canada, and also connects Anglophone and Francophone regions, thereby reflecting the unique cultural fabric of Canada.PLC will also be growing its programs to accommodate human resource demands in Canada, including those in early childhood education, trades, accounting and information technology.Our long-term vision is to develop a full independent campus that can service up to 5,000 students by 2025.
Globally our plan is to grow our strategic presence to areas such as central Africa and eastern Europe, while also growing said presence in the regions in which we are established. This growth includes partnerships with governments and ministries of multiple countries Including Morocco and the UAE.Our re-certification certificate for both our locations can be found here.
Make PLC your first choice if you are deciding to move to Canada. You will definitely not regret
Give flight to your dreams by indulging in a program that will benefit your life, all in all. By enrolling yourself in the
Make PLC your first choice if you are deciding to move to Canada. You will definitely not regret
Give flight to your dreams by indulging in a program that will benefit your life, all in all. By enrolling yourself in the
After traveling the globe six times over, Arun Masand sold his shares in an adventure travel company he founded in Calgary and Toronto and headed out west. His experience as an adventure and expedition leader in the tourism industry has given him a logistical savvy that helps him in the day-to-day running of any team, and as a mountain climber he appreciates any challenge. He is always looking for the latest technology that can help a team be more efficient and productive. He says he will not give up his dream of riding his motorcycle across the Sahara Desert and enjoys sharing travel stories with students, clients and friends.
Arun is an immigrant himself and moved to the west some 30 years ago and later began sharing his tourism and travel experiences with students at a tourism college in Vancouver and Surrey. During this time, Arun Masand also launched his own Business Consulting company and has been consistently helping small and big organizations with their digital development, strategic operations and profitability in a number of fields. As an inveterate believer in education and an active businessperson, he has great passion for sharing his business experience and IT abilities with students from all over the world through informative and interactive lectures and presentations.
Arun is a commerce graduate from the University of Toronto and a Certified Canadian Risk Manager from Simon Fraser University as well as a computer programmer and web developer. His marketing avvy and years of working with corporate entities and fortune 500 companies in the technology and insurance sectors have enabled him to discover the best methods and strategy for gaining the competitive advantage. Arun Masand also served the City of Vancouver as a Police Officer in a former career path and is proud to be a Notary Public in the Province of Saskatchewan and a Commissioner of Oaths in the Province of British Columbia. He is a proud Canadian and encourages any immigration to this wonderful country.
Arun is a people person and develops meaningful connections with his students at Pacific Link College, where he is a contract lecturer on Post Secondary Digital Media and Business studies, and loves sharing his interest on global economies, business and enabling a talent pool for the work force. As an educator, he motivates, and nurtures a love for learning and encourages participation in every course. Respect, honour, hard work and truth are the bywords that he lives by and he inculcates a love for knowledge and a passion for living with each one of his students. One of his favourite Latin mottos which he has carried from his high school years is “Non scholæ sed vitæ discimus” – Not for school, but for life
Iris Burog finished her post diploma in Human Resource Management at College of New Caledonia. She chose this career in order to continue learning the behaviour and how to deal with different people in the environment as she takes part in honing and leading them for their future endeavours and career development.
Iris has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from De La Salle – Lipa in Computer Science. She has also acquired a Certificate of Completion in Basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP in AMA Computer College. She used these achievements to work in a call centre for a year, basically troubleshooting software applications and hardware failure services.
For almost 12 years, Iris was a part of a Learning Centre, a business owned by her older sister. She was a private tutor and at the same time, an online ESL teacher. Over the years of teaching, she was able to find out that not only her passion was in technological sense, but also in managing students in achieving their future goals.
With the experience Iris’ encountered, she was able to find out that what’s more important in pursuing her job was not only about the money, but how she enjoyed and loved her job, and how she can treat the people in her environment. Changing career for her was not that difficult, because she easily got along with finding her passion. This fact was also the reason why she decided to study and work in Canada, so she can have a deeper knowledge or understanding of people’s behaviour, skills, and attitudes in a diversified environment.
Stuart is very excited to be a part of the Pacific Link College Team and looking forward to the future. He brings with him over twenty-five years of experience and training in the hospitality and tourism industry. Stuart started his career in his home town of Ottawa Ontario. Since then, he has been able to work and travel throughout western Canada in Vancouver, Victoria and Langley B.C. across the Rockies and into Calgary and Banff Alberta. As far North as Beaver Creek Yukon and as far South as Isla Majeures Mexico. He is very much a people person and loves to travel.
Stuart is also a graduate of Global TESOL College and had the wonderful opportunity to teach English as a second language in central Thailand for two years. He found he learned as much if not more from his students as they did from him. It also gave him the opportunity to travel around Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.
Over the last ten years Stuart had been working for Gateway Casinos and Entertainment, and the last five years he was the General Manager of their Match Eatery & Public House Langley location. The Flagship of their newly developed brand. Here he was responsible for the daily operations along with the training and development of team members and Managers for new sights opening across Canada. The most rewarding part of that job for him was in helping facilitate and celebrate the success of these individuals.
Stuart is looking forward to helping facilitate and celebrate your success here at Pacific Link College.
A member of the International Travel Trade & Tourism community for almost 20 years, Juliana has helped build brands and client relationships for companies such as Celebrity Cruises, Azamara Cruises and Crystal Cruises. She possesses expertise in high end sales and marketing, community and client engagement, and trade and media event management. as an entrepreneur, consultant, and passionate community connector, Juliana is excited to leverage a world of experience to create Tourism development through community economic and cultural empowerment.
Originally from Brazil, she has travelled the world as a crew member of premium cruise lines. Since graduating with honors with a bachelor’s degree in Tourism at PUCRS, one of the best recognized universities in Latin America Juliana has been regularly attending network and professional development events building on her extensive experience in strategic planning, resources management,relationship building and engagement, team management, entrepreneurship, budget planning and execution of PR, marketing and sales strategies globally.
Guneet helps international students achieve their ECE goals in the Childcare Language Assistant program.
She has 12+ years of professional experience as an Early Childhood Educator working as a Special Needs Educator, Infant/Toddler Educator and an Educator for school aged children.
Since attaining her ECE credentials in 2011 from Vancouver College Inku has become a committed educator professional offering 8 years of success working with young children to foster positive educational outcomes. She is highly skilled in interacting with families and other academic personnel to cultivate a high-quality learning environment and adept at working with diverse age groups and developmental skill levels to build rapport and drive academic growth.
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