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WOMEN IN TRADES

City News Interview on March 8, 2024

Celebrating international women's day

City News
Photo: City News
Date: March 8, 2024


March 8 marks international women’s day. Faiza Amin spoke with Lilly Lazare-Greene, a welder and a lab technician at George Brown College, on breaking gender stereotypes.

NEW SURVEY

Workers with disabilities face lack of support from employers, colleagues: survey

Benefits Canada
Photo: GBC
Date: March 4, 2024

More than half (54 per cent) of workers with disabilities don’t feel enabled by their employer to “reach their full potential in the workplace,” according to a survey from George Brown College. The survey, which polled more than 900 Canadian workers with disabilities, found just a third (32 per cent) said their employer was very helpful and supportive. Among respondents who questioned the type of support they received, 34 per cent said they saw their managers as “somewhat helpful and supportive,” while one in five (20 per cent) said their organization was “not at all” helpful.

ELECTRIC VEHICLES

Electrician student studying a power panel

UCSB Professional and Continuing Education Launches Electric Vehicle Technician Program in Partnership with George Brown College

BollyInside
Photo: GBC
Date: February 20, 2024

As the demand for electric vehicles reshapes the automotive landscape, the UCSB Professional and Continuing Education has launched an Electric Vehicle Technician program in partnership with George Brown College. The program aims to address the need for skilled professionals in the growing electric vehicle industry and provide the latest developments in the automotive industry. It also emphasizes the critical role of education and training for the future of transportation. Senior program manager Alex Clarke stated, “Our hope is to support the local workforce in developing skills in new technologies, especially electric vehicle technician and the electric vehicle automotive industry. We want to serve that area.”

ONTARIO SCHOOLS

School of Design classroom

Why Are Ontario Post-Secondary Schools in Fiscal Disarray?

The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Photo: GBC
Date: February 13, 2024

In the past few months, troubling news about the financial health of Ontario's post-secondary institutions has come to light. Many colleges and universities face serious deficits in the years to come. After the federal government announced a cap on international students, that made the situation worse. To discuss this troubling issue, we welcome Jeff Casello, associate vice president of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, and a professor at the University of Waterloo; Anne Sado, president emeritus of George Brown College; And Alex Usher, CEO of Higher Education Strategy Associates.

CELEBRATING ITALIA

George Brown celebrates 20-year partnership with world-famous Italian cooking school ALMA

Education News Canada
Photo: GBC
Date: Februrary 6, 2024

In early 2004, George Brown College joined forces with ALMA, the world-famous Scuola Internazionale di Cucina Italiana, to offer GBC culinary students the opportunity to learn and live near Parma, Italy. On January 31, this 20-year partnership was the focus of Celebrating Italia, a special event that brought friends from near and far (including Consul General of Italy, and Michelin-starred Chef Ernesto Iaccarino) to mark the occasion. George Brown's Advanced Italian Culinary Arts students, who returned from Italy in December, created a spectacular menu for the Celebrating Italia walk-around reception. 

NEW RECRUITMENT

Scores of students attend recruitment drive to study in Canada

Guyana Times
Photo: GBC
Date: February 5, 2024

Through an initiative of the Student Centre, a leading higher education firm based in Barbados, a new recruitment process was on Saturday launched at the Marriott Hotel in Kingston, Georgetown with the goal of helping Guyanese students to get enrollment into one of six participating Canadian universities. Caribbean college planner and coordinator of the event, Sheena Alleyne, explaining the gap between universities and students around the world, and the ways in which the Student Centre has closed that gap, said, “Guyana is exponentially growing, and the Student Centre has seen it very fit to come here to create linkage with Canadian universities and possible Guyanese students.”

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