Office Administration: Records Management Skills Certificate is a certificate in Business & Management programme taught at Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, Canada. The programme is delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 2,066 per total for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Certificate
Field:Business & Management
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 2,066 / total
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This VCC certificate prepares students to manage organisational records, covering business English and document composition alongside the core records-management functions of creating, classifying, storing, retrieving and disposing of information. The curriculum also addresses freedom-of-information and privacy rules, micrographics, reprographics and optical-disk technology, forms management and disaster recovery, supervisory management and decision-making, and general workplace technology skills including keyboarding, with basic accounting, payroll or bookkeeping offered as an elective. No co-op or practicum is stated. VCC describes the certificate as completed over roughly two to three years under continuous, year-round enrolment. Admission requires applicants to be at least 18 years old and a secondary-school graduate or equivalent, with academic-upgrading, university-transfer and ESL courses available for those who need to meet prerequisites first. The college recommends good communication and interpersonal skills and the capacity to work both independently and in a team. It suits people moving into records- and information-management roles within an office, distinct from the legal-, medical- and general-administration certificates offered alongside it in VCC's Office Administration series.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Vancouver Community College applies its general admission standard to this certificate: applicants must be at least 18 years of age and a graduate of a secondary school or equivalent, with no additional programme-specific course or grade prerequisite listed. The page states no IELTS, TOEFL or other standardized English-test requirement and no minimum grade point average. Enrolment is continuous, so applications are accepted on an ongoing basis rather than against a fixed intake date; a complete application consists of the application form, evidence of the age and education prerequisite, and the required fee. Applicants missing the secondary-school prerequisite can pursue VCC's tuition-free academic upgrading, university-transfer or ESL courses first. The page separately recommends, but does not require, good oral and written communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills.
Application Details
Start Date:Continuous
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply through EducationPlannerBC. VCC publishes each programme's own application window, term by term, on its When to Apply page rather than one college-wide date: windows open roughly six to twenty months before the term starts and close on a stated date, though popular programmes can close earlier once seats fill, since places generally go to eligible applicants in the order their application is completed. International applicants use the International Applicant option on EducationPlannerBC; VCC opens international applications on 1 February of the previous year for Winter entry, 1 June for Spring/Summer, and 1 October for Fall, with no fixed closing date — applications continue until roughly three to four months before the term begins or until it fills, so admission is effectively rolling for international applicants. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
