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Microcredentials offer professional ‘up-skilling’  

Microcredentials offer professional ‘up-skilling’  

Western is at the forefront of a fast-growing movement to offer microcredentials: short-course nuggets that provide learners with enhanced professional qualifications and skills. With a $650,000 funding from the province, Western will develop three suit …

Passion permeates adult ed honourees

Passion permeates adult ed honourees

Three Western students were among 14 learners who recently received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education (LCAE).

Asari leaves classroom to take Trois-Pistoles helm

Asari leaves classroom to take Trois-Pistoles helm

While Kathy Asari may be leaving the formal classroom setting, she knows her love of teaching will never fade, as she prepares to step into the role of Director of Western’s French Immersion School at Trois-Pistoles.

Tuning into Canadian music artists

Tuning into Canadian music artists

Discover the tempos that keep her toes tapping and mind engaged when Carolyn Young of Western Continuing Studies takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Bringing career development to the community

Bringing career development to the community

Ira Timothy, communications co-ordinator with the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians in London, turned his passion for film-making into a post-degree diploma through Western Continuing Studies.

Determined learners never done studying

Determined learners never done studying

Three Western students were among 10 learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies who received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education May 25. A fourth Western student received the Society of Mature Students (SMS) Mentor of...

Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice

Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice

The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.

Awards of Excellence celebrate our own

Awards of Excellence celebrate our own

The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.

Pillar partnership to power non-profits

Pillar partnership to power non-profits

Western’s Continuing Studies has teamed up with Fanshawe College to strengthen the impact of the London’s non-profit sector through enhanced training and education. With a $5,000 contribution from each postsecondary institution, the partnership will co-sponsor...

Passion permeates adult ed honourees

Passion permeates adult ed honourees

Three Western students were among 14 learners who recently received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education (LCAE).

Asari leaves classroom to take Trois-Pistoles helm

Asari leaves classroom to take Trois-Pistoles helm

While Kathy Asari may be leaving the formal classroom setting, she knows her love of teaching will never fade, as she prepares to step into the role of Director of Western’s French Immersion School at Trois-Pistoles.

Tuning into Canadian music artists

Tuning into Canadian music artists

Discover the tempos that keep her toes tapping and mind engaged when Carolyn Young of Western Continuing Studies takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

Bringing career development to the community

Bringing career development to the community

Ira Timothy, communications co-ordinator with the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians in London, turned his passion for film-making into a post-degree diploma through Western Continuing Studies.

Determined learners never done studying

Determined learners never done studying

Three Western students were among 10 learners from a variety of educational institutions and agencies who received Adult Learner Awards from the London Council for Adult Education May 25. A fourth Western student received the Society of Mature Students (SMS) Mentor of...

Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice

Connecting carvings to soldiers, sacrifice

The images of carvings – some intricate, others rudimentary – on the walls of a chalk cave deep underground in the French countryside are symbols of Canadian lives lived and lost during the First World War.

Awards of Excellence celebrate our own

Awards of Excellence celebrate our own

The Western Award of Excellence has welcomed six more individuals and one team to Western’s highest level of recognition for staff members.

Pillar partnership to power non-profits

Pillar partnership to power non-profits

Western’s Continuing Studies has teamed up with Fanshawe College to strengthen the impact of the London’s non-profit sector through enhanced training and education. With a $5,000 contribution from each postsecondary institution, the partnership will co-sponsor...