Learning: Learning for Life
The information glut, caused partly by technology, by media, and by our innate inquisitiveness, is forcing us to learn to better evaluate all the information bombarding us. Learning to learn and learning to evaluate are skills that are becoming critical in our data-intensive world. You might take a course to finish a degree, upgrade your education, or for pleasure and knowledge. You need to evaluate the reasons for taking a course. Evaluate your invested cost and time, particularly for career-oriented courses. Classes taken for pleasure might escape such detailed scrutiny. Winnipeg has many choices In Winnipeg, you can take many classes on a full or part-time basis. You can look to major educational institutions, including the University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, the francophone Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, and Red River College. Contact them at these locations:
University of Manitoba is the provinces largest university, and is hoe to 16,000 full-time and 5,000 part-time, and 7,000 summer students. The Fort Garry campus, in the south of town covers 277 hectares and also includes four colleges: St John's, St Paul's, St Andrew's and University College. The university's medical and dental schools are located just north of downtown at the Bannatyne campus, in conjunction with the Health Sciences Centre. The University's continuing education program is run from the downtown campus at Place Promenade.The University of Winnipeg is the province's second largest university, with 4,300 full-time and 1,700 part-time students at its downtown campus. U of W offers a number of 3 and 4 year degree programs, some in conjunction with U of M, and others with Red River College. The Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface offers francophone university education to 600 full-time and 2,000 continuing education students, with degree programs in the arts, sciences and education and college diplomas through its Ecole Technique Professionelle, and French language courses through continuing education. Red River College offers 90 different programs including diplomas, certificates, and joint degrees. It also provides training for apprentices in 20 different trades. The College has 30,000 full-time and part-time students with a main campus by the airport, and a satellite campus by Union Station. Notably, it offers aerospace training at its main campus and at five communities around the province. Other Institutions The South Technical Centre offers both continuing education and work-based training for students at both high school and adult levels, working at their own pace. The Centre handles about 2,000 students a year. Contact admissions at 989-6500. The city is also renowned for its religious colleges, including the Canadian Mennonite Bible College, near Assiniboine Park (204) 888-6781.
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