SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

BCIT has many programs in place to support vulnerable groups and foster a more diverse and inclusive campus community:

• Opportunities for Indigenous students and building pathways for Indigenous learning
• Accessibility Services to empower students to overcome the limits and barriers they encounter during their studies
• Support for prospective international students

Read about these programs and more at SDG 10: Reducing Inequalities.

Technological upgrading and innovation is one of the targets of SDG 8. The Student Innovation Challenge is an annual contest where students go head-to-head for cash prizes allocated to innovative projects and ideas. Here, students are provided with the opportunity to transform their knowledge into building solutions.

Applied Research at BCIT creates practical learning opportunities for BCIT’s students, provides innovative solutions to industry challenges, and produces new, commercially relevant technology products and applications. BCIT researchers and research groups have been working with industry clients for 30 years, helping companies and organizations develop new technologies, products and services. Drawing on faculty from more than 200 technical programs within six BCIT schools, the full-time research staff of our Applied Research groups MAKE+, SMART and NRG, we can assemble project teams with multi-disciplinary skills and expertise.

Explore Applied Research at BCIT

BCIT conducts regular workplace experience surveys with the most recent completed in 2022. Employee engagement is a good gauge of organizational health and it is a measure of BCIT’s commitment to be a people-focused organization. Regularly measuring employee engagement will help the Institute remain focused on the things that matter most to BCIT employees.

The overall employee engagement score represents the percentage of BCIT employees who are engaged. Engagement is determined by how they answer the six Say-Stay-Strive questions. This is based on research/validation that demonstrates that certain employee behaviours (Say, Stay, Strive behaviours) are linked to better organizational results (thus validates why it is important to focus on these behaviours and that they are linked to organizational success). Examples include: Talent (better retention, lower absenteeism, better wellness), Operational (higher productivity, better safety), Customer (higher customer satisfaction scores, higher NPS, better customer retention), Financial (better revenue/sales growth, better operating margin/income, better total shareholder returns).