U of T’s Green Path Program Prepares Chinese Students for Life in Canada

The Green Path program is an initiative that recruits top students from high schools in mainland China to participate in an academic and ESL program preparing them for undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. In addition to building academic skills in the areas of reading, writing, grammar, as well as listening to and speaking English, they also get to adapt to life in Canada.

The students live in residence and the program includes social activities and field trips to popular tourist sites in Toronto and the GTA. Once the students successfully complete the Green Path program, they go directly into first-year undergraduate studies at U of T. This year, 197 students from 19 different provinces in China participated in the program.

Green Path, which translates from Chinese as ‘the way to success,’ is taught by faculty members from the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies’ English Language program. Last year, the 172 program graduates went on to extraordinary academic success in the recent school year. More than half of the courses taken by Green Path graduates resulted in scores in the B+ range.

Graduates of the Green Path will receive their certificates at a special graduation ceremony and lunch on Thursday, August 16 that will be attended by Consul General Li Fang from the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Toronto, UTSC principal and U of T vice-president Franco Vaccarino and Rick Halpern, dean and vice-principal academics.

– U of T website Media Room