Training & Education

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.

Laura Swanson, a student at Cambrian College's new level one pre-apprenticeship women in carpentry program, said she probably would not have enrolled to the program if it had been open to men as well.

Murad Al-Jafari emigrated to Canada from Jordan in 2008. Even though he had 15 years of experience as a procurement specialist and maintenance engineer in his home country, he struggled to find similar work here.

Confederation and Northern College students will have access to two geographic information systems (GIS) programming offered through Fleming College in Peterborough.

Ontario’s Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration is investing $2.7 million over three years to Professions North to assist internationally trained professionals in landing jobs. The money was given to Laurentian University.