Continuing Education
 
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About Continuing Education

What is Continuing Education?

  • Credit & non-credit courses outside traditional post-secondary offerings.
  • Northern responds to community needs to develop courses of personal or professional interest.

  • General categories:
  • General Interest
  • Computers
  • Languages
  • Skills and Trades
  • Health
  • Arts
  • Business/Management
  • Workplace/Career

  • Who can take Continuing Education courses?
  • Adults 19 years or older. (Some exceptions may apply.)
  • Contact us for more details.

    Who can teach?
  • Anyone with professional or vocational skills, hobbies, languages, etc.
  • Skilled tradespersons are always in demand for technical and apprenticeship courses.
  • Contact us to pitch your idea or submit your resumé

    Why take Continuing Education courses?
  • Update your professional skills
  • Career advancement
  • Learn a new hobby
  • Meet new people
  • Learn from instructors currently in their field of expertise
  • Study part-time while maintaining job & family responsibilities
  • To see if you're ready for a post-secondary diploma program

  • When are courses offered?
  • Generally, there are three sessions: Fall, Winter, Spring
  • Courses, programs, seminars and workshops are offered throughout the year.

    How will you know what courses are available?
  • Session course/program listings are advertised in local papers and posted to this website a few weeks before sessions begin.
  • Courses are usually offered on a part-time basis, evenings or weekends.
  • Some short courses, seminars, and workshops are offered during the week.

    Where do you go to take Continuing Education courses?
    Continuing Education courses are offered at Northern's main campuses:
  • Haileybury/New Liskeard
    (Temiskaming Shores)
  • Kirkland Lake
  • Porcupine (Timmins)
  • Moosonee
  • ... and surrounding communities.

  • Some courses are available through Distance Education.
  • Over 700 on-line courses are offered through ontariolearn.com

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