- BASE leverages Cape Breton’s incredible natural beauty and its post-industrial landscapes. From Mi’kmaq creation stories, to modern-day moose hunts, this Island is the perfect learning grounds. - Foster the ability to promote cultural shifts, political commitment, and scientific approaches as a society while maintaining openness to the contribution of multiple fields of enquiry. - BASE graduates are qualified for BEd programs, with multiple teachable fields of specialization. Students have the required number of courses for an upper level teachable field in a science concentration, and will be able to construct a secondary teachable in their arts concentration.

- Secondary School Diploma (Average C grade); - English Language proficiency