On Friday, members of the NAIT community gathered where the Advanced Skills Centre (ASC) will be built to participate in a collective blessing ceremony led by NAIT’s Indigenous leaders. Staff and students stood in a circle on the Treaty 6 land as Lonny Potts, a...
Students in nine programs will face tuition increases after the Government of Alberta approved NAIT’s exceptional tuition increases (ETIs) for the 2026/27 year. The increases will only apply to domestic students starting in Fall 2026 or later; returning students will...
Due to a realignment of budgeting priorities, the NAIT Student Orientation (NSO) committee will no longer be serving the popular taco in a bag to new students beginning in the spring 2026 term. Instead, the committee has announced that they will be switching to coffee...
Imagine you’re a few months away from graduation when you find out that you have to take four more exams. Even worse, the exams are each six hours long, said to be very challenging and required to get the industry certification you planned to pursue. This is the...
In an attempt to address the long-running practice of students maliciously setting off fire alarms during final examinations, NAIT has recently installed new, state of the art fire alarms that can only be activated by students with a cumulative grade point average...
The Culinary Arts program at NAIT has partnered with Callebaut Chocolate to unwrap NAIT’s very own chocolate bar — the Ook Bar. During a trip to France in 2024, Culinary Instructors Curtis Jones and David Whitaker developed a custom blend of chocolate through a...
When students at NAIT’s Centre for Advanced Medical Simulation (CAMS) hear “simulation start” over the intercom, they are transported from the classroom to a disaster scenario. At the scene, students encounter injured patients, blood, yelling, smoke and debris; an...
NAIT has increased domestic tuition for 11 programs and 29 apprenticeship programs. The 2026/27 domestic tuition increase was approved by NAIT’s Board of Governors on March 3. NAIT’s VP Academic, Peter Leclaire, says the increases will “maintain the standard of...
At around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday March 11, the Blatchford and Spruce Avenue area experienced a sudden loss of power, including NAIT’s main campus. Power was restored in buildings west of 106 street by 12:30 p.m., with all power returning at 2:30 p.m. In the...
Budget 2026 was released on Feb. 26, and NAIT’s Advanced Skills Centre (ASC) was named as one of the government’s capital projects. NAIT will receive $384 million over three years towards a $560 million total investment: $52 million this year, $130 million in 2027/28...
