Eligibility for employment on campus
To be eligible for employment on campus, the student must:
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be registered full-time at a public universit
y, community college, CEGEP, publicly funded
trade/technical school or private institution authori
zed by provincial statute to confer degrees;
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be in possession of a valid and subsisting study permit; and
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work on campus at the institution where they ar
e registered, whether for
the institution itself
or for a private business located on campus.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/study/work-oncampus.asp
They say nothing about should it be an academic program. But they say a student have to be a FULL time student.