"KWES mission is to provide our learners with an academic education that incorporates our living  Witsuwit’en language and is rooted in niwhts’ide’nï’ hibi’it’en within a collaborative, innovative, happy, safe and supportive environment." 

Student Eligibility Requirements 
 
All students who are funded must meet eligibility requirements outlined as follows: 
 

1. Be a registered status Indigenous from Witsuwit'en First Nation and have a current status card photocopy for student file;

2. Be a Canadian resident for the past 12 months prior to application;

3. Be accepted by an eligible post secondary institution;

4. Be accepted into an eligible program of study (i.e. certificate, diploma, degree, or University college entrance program UCEP) and,

5. Maintain continued academic standing with the institution.