Offered by Fleming College in Peterborough, Canada, Cert in Personal Support Worker - Living Classroom is a certificate in Nursing programme. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 17,818 per year (CAD 4,693 per year for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Nursing
Duration: 2 semesters
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 4,693 / year
International tuition: CAD 17,818 / year
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This enhanced two-semester program is distinct from our Personal Support Worker program. It is delivered in partnership with a local Long-Term Care (LTC) Home and embeds students directly into a real-world care environment. Using an interprofessional, collaborative model, called the Living Classroom, students, faculty, long-term care staff, residents, and families all learn and grow together.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This community-based stream of Personal Support Worker carries the same academic entry requirement as the standard programme: an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) with the majority of credits at Workplace (E) level including Grade 12 Workplace (E) English, with College (C), University (U) or Mixed (M) level courses accepted wherever a Workplace-level course is listed. Applicants 19 or older without an OSSD may sit the Skillsmarker assessment. As with the standard stream, admitted students must complete placement-related non-academic field requirements including a police records check before starting clinical placement. No programme-level language scores are published, so Fleming College's general English proficiency requirement applies: IELTS Academic 6.0 overall with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 80 with no section below 20, PTE Academic 46, or Duolingo English Test 105.
Application Details
Start Date:January, May and September
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for full-time programmes starting in the 2027 fall intake the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and Fleming also runs a January start; applications received after 1 February are processed first-come, first-served until programmes are full. International applicants apply via the OCAS International Application Service to the September, January or May intake and face no fixed deadline; Fleming instead recommends applying between six weeks and five months before the intended start depending on home country, and processes files on a rolling basis with offers typically issued within 5-10 business days. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
