Training & Education

The Frontenac open pit may have limited gold potential, but it’s perfect ground for the type of real-world training that Randy Becker wants to provide for First Nations.

Collège Boréal in Sudbury has a new president. Daniel Giroux will become the French post-secondary school’s fifth president on Sept. 1.

Northern College and Glencore’s Kidd Operations have signed an agreement to collaborate on training students for work in the mining industry through the Haileybury School of Mines. The signing formalizes an agreement that was announced in February.

Northern College is employing a unique method for re-establishing its bursary campaign: crowdfunding.

Collège Boréal will soon be offering a Motive Power Trades pre-apprenticeship program at its Sudbury and Timmins campuses.

Sudbury’s Laurentian University will be doing some target practice with minerals in the coming months if all goes to plan.

A new map launched by the Northern Policy Institute displays Northern Ontario’s infrastructure assets.

Laurentian University in Sudbury has opened its $3.1-million Executive Learning Centre.

Cambrian College in Sudbury has teamed up with welding oversight body CWB Group to offer a new welding course. The CWBi Acorn program will be offered through the Sudbury school’s corporate training division.

Dr. Daniel Kontak, an earth sciences professor at Laurentian University , has been named the 2016 winner of the Duncan R. Derry Medal, awarded by the Geological Association of Canada.