By paNOW Staff

Business of the Day – Northlands College

Feb 23, 2013 | 7:39 AM

Educating northerners to work in the north is how Northlands College is helping build Saskatchewan’s future.

The college specializes in training residents for jobs in the province’s booming resource sector offering courses in mine engineering, radiation monitoring and environmental technician.

But the college also offers a wide array of courses outside the mining industry including literacy, basic education, vocational training and university courses through its three campus centres located in Buffalo Narrows, La Ronge, and Creighton.

Its courses aren’t just offered in those communities. Senior Program Coordinator Jason Kennedy says they are also offered outside their main campuses.

“We present courses in approximately 40 different communities at one time or another,” he said
Increasing the accessibility of education for northerners is a vital part of what the college does, said Kennedy.

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“The majority of students don’t really have an interest in going to the major cities to further their education.” By offering an education in the smaller communities, and in the three major communities mentioned above, it allows them to further their education while completing their educational goals said Kennedy.

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