Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Indigenous Education Office
Other form(s) of name
Ontario. Aboriginal Education Policy Unit
Ontario. Aboriginal Education Office
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Aboriginal Education Policy Unit was created in the Field Services Branch, French-Language Education and Educational Operations Division in 2004. It was a new unit that took over functions previously performed by the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Branch and the Corporate and Field Services Division.
In 2006 the unit was renamed the Aboriginal Education Office. In 2010 it was retained as part of the newly created French-Language, Aboriginal Learning and Research Division.
In 2018 the Office was renamed to the Indigenous Education Office in the Indigenous Education and Well Being Division.
Places
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Indigenous Education Office provides ministry-wide coordination and leadership on Aboriginal educational issues and initiatives, working in collaboration with Aboriginal communities and organizations, Ontario school boards, post-secondary institutions, other ministries and the federal government.
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None.
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
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Control area
Authority record identifier
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Government telephone directories and KWIC indexes.
Description for RG 2-408.
"Sound Foundations for the Road Ahead: Fall 2009 Progress Report on Implementation of the Ontario First Nation, Metis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework", http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/aboriginal/SoundFoundation_RoadAhead.pdf
Maintenance notes
A dim successor to the Native Education Policy Unit of MET which was dissolved when the Ministry of Education was created in 1999. The function continued but was buried in the organizational charts.
Archivist(s):
Levi