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Student Tips
As you’re preparing to graduate from your GBC Technical Training certificate program, it’s important to start thinking about your current and next steps to ensure a successful graduation and transition from the program. It can be challenging when figuring out where to start, so we’ve created a list of tasks and ideas to help you get started with the process!
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Career Tips
Online courses and programs have gained massive popularity in the past few years, attracting a large and diverse population of learners. Young adults are no longer the only students in these programs—recent research indicates that online students are becoming younger and older!
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Student Tips
At GBC’s School of Distance Education, we offer technical training programs built to prepare International Students for success.
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Career Tips
Computer simulations have greatly evolved with progress in computer science over the past few decades.
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Career Tips
In the past few decades, automation has rapidly disrupted and changed industries by redefining responsibilities of existing jobs, and introduced new fields and roles.
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Student Tips
Online education has brought numerous advantages to learning, such as making education more accessible, and in some ways, more interactive and engaging.
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Career Tips
You’re thinking about upgrading your technical skills, but still have reservations about going back to school as an adult learner. It’s completely normal to have these feelings.
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Technical Tips
Within the last decade, the pace of technological advancement has increased rapidly, changing the way things
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Career Tips
Two commonly misunderstood types of training are certificates and certifications. Both provide important value, but are quite different in terms of purpose, content, oversight and commitment required to complete them.
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Career Tips
With technological developments happening all around us, newly graduated engineers or those who have been in the workforce for quite some time may find it difficult to stay competitive and on-trend within the current field.
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Industry News
Manufacturing executives believe current workers lack sufficient skills. Read More.
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Student Tips
Do you want to earn a Canadian credential to add to your list of technical qualifications?
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Industry News
Do you feel you need to boost your skills and increase your technical knowledge but don’t know how to ask your employer to pay for your online technical training?
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Career Tips
Colin Simpson is the Dean of GBC’s Centre for Continuous Learning.
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Student Tips
Are you looking for a technical training program to develop your skills and propel your career forward?
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Industry News
There was a time when collecting stamps in an album or pinning the dried thorax of insects under glass were considered to be admirable pastimes - the pursuance of which lent an air of sophistication to the practitioner (or at the very least, made
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Career Tips
It goes without saying that with no Canadian work experience, it can be very difficult for new immigrants to find a job in Canada`s technical labour market.
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Industry News
Composite materials are the manufacturing approach of the future, at least according to current thinking.
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Industry News
One of the most commom questions asked by our prospective students is “Learning all about the theory and application of PLCs is great but will I be able to program PLCs after taking the PLC Technician Certificate program?” The answer is yes.