Business student Solomon Peters shaved $1,500 from his tuition and reduced his class time by 168 hours at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ont., thanks to an agreement last year between his employer and Ontario's 24 public colleges.
The 30-year-old, who will graduate this semester after pursuing a two-year diploma part-time, also manages two McDonald's outlets in Toronto. His college will count the fast food chain's in-house training for managers as the equivalent of first-year business studies.
Peters, now a general manager at McDonald's, began working for the company at the age of 15. Since then, for every promotion, he has enrolled in McDonald's training programs that offer lessons on human resources, organizational behaviour, finance and leadership. That on-the-job training covered the first-year business curriculum, as vetted by Colleges Ontario, a provincial association. "It allows you to reach somewhere you didn't have the opportunity to go before," says Peters.
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