Training & Education

Lakehead University chancellor Derek Burney and his wife, Joan, announced a gift of $150,000 to establish the first postdoctoral fellowship for the Thunder Bay school’s Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Mining and Exploration (CESME).

Gin-Cor Industries hosted 75 secondary school students to learn about potential trades and technology careers with the Mattawa-based heavy truck equipment company.

North Bay ’s Canadore College has renewed its long-standing partnership agreement with Essential Helicopters, a flight training company, to deliver its popular helicopter programs.

Goldcorp’s Musselwhite Mine donated a retired scoop tram to Confederation College in Thunder Bay as a training tool for heavy-duty equipment mechanical students.

Sikorsky Aircraft delivered a new hands-on training aid to Canadore College’s aviation students with the transfer of a helicopter maintenance trainer. The transfer ceremony was held in North Bay , May 1.

Cambrian College has a new president. The Sudbury school announced on April 28 it has appointed Bill Best, who has worked in higher education for more than 20 years. Best succeeds interim president Sonia Del Missier, effective Aug. 5.

Lakehead University economist Livio Di Matteo has co-authored a new study for the Fraser Institute that Ontario’s poor economic performance is dragging down Canada’s economy.

For students training to be water treatment specialists, the best hands-on experience can be found working in municipal labs.

Development of the Ring of Fire mineral deposits may have slowed to a crawl, but progress is being made in the preparations to train up a future workforce.

Classroom time at Northern College will become more tailored to individual student learning with the advent of Universal Instructional Design (UID). Northern College got $500,000 from the provincial government to enhance programming at the school.