Education/training
Be a survivorat CentennialWith more than 160 part-time courses offered for the first time this fall, Centennial College has upgraded its computer studies in keeping with the breakneck rate of change in the industry. |
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 [ 2002-07-17 ] |
There's something of interest to everyone from casual computer users to professionals.
New this year are Centennial's One-Day Survival Guides, intensive training seminars in some of the essential skills IT employers are looking for today. Included in the series are Cisco Routers, Linux, Solaris and Microsoft Exchange. The Professional Series at Shorting Campus offers more detailed courses usually spanning two days.
Database courses continue to be popular. Centennial has several new courses in Oracle DBA and Microsoft SQL Server. Firewall and anti-virus skills are hot too, with courses in Check Point, BorderWare, Cisco PIX, SonicWall, McAfee, ArcServe and other software.
Novice computer users can choose from a variety of courses to help make home computing less intimidating. An Introduction to Windows XP allows users to learn the basics of setting up a workstation.
Surfing the Internet is a tuition-free seminar that demonstrates the appeal and utility of the World Wide Web to first-time users.
New media specialists can choose from three certificate programs of study, including Digital Visual Effects, Games Design and Games Programming (each certificate requires six part-time courses).
New courses include Level Design for Games, Particle Animation and Advanced Compositing. New media courses take place at Centennial's Centre for Creative Communications, recognized as one of Canada's best new media schools by the editors of Shift magazine.
Centennial is an authorized education partner of Cisco Systems, Microsoft, CompTIA and Linux Professional Institute. The college's Certification Training Centre (CTC) provides instructor-led courses for many industry-recognized certifications.
There are more than 1,000 part-time courses published in Centennial's new Continuing Education calendar, available free at any campus. Most courses begin during the second week of September. For more information and to register online, visit the Web site at www.centennialcollege.ca or call 416-289-5207.
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Seneca College Fashion Arts student Sandra Lopes continues to experience success with her recent win at the June 21 Smirnoff Experience competition in Toronto.
The dance music event featured fashion presentations by Canada's best young designers. Lopes' design was for argyle pattern inspired clubwear designed for comfort while expressing a unique and sexy style. The award brings with it a $2,500 cash bursary.
Last month, Sandra was also selected by a UK panel from six Canadian semi-finalists to represent Canada in the final round of Commonwealth Fashion to be held in Manchester in August.
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OPSEU Local 125, representing Lambton College's faculty and counsellors, plans to dedicate a gazebo this fall in memory of its members who have passed away.
In an official ceremony planned for September, the union will unveil an inscribed plaque in front of the newly built 10-ft. wide cedar gazebo and its surrounding perennial rock garden, said Margaret Niestroj-Young, Local 125 president.
More than 90 volunteers recently pitched in to build the gazebo and plant flowers, with faculty, staff, administration and students taking on tasks ranging from hammering nails to fetching coffee.
Family members of two faculty members whose deaths sparked the project also volunteered for the day.
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