TERRACE - Thanks to Northwest Community College’s (NWCC) government-sponsored Employment Skills Access (ESA) program, 372 Northwest BC residents are now prepared to take advantage of new job opportunities in the region. By waiving covering the cost of tuition, student fees, and the cost of books and materials, and sometimes transportation... Continue reading

SMITHERS – Northwest Community College (NWCC) is on the road again, promoting First Nations and industry partnerships, as modeled in its award-winning School of Exploration & Mining (SEM). Beverly Moore-Garcia, NWCC's Vice-President of Education and Student Services, was invited to present at the third annual Yukon First Nations Resource Conference... Continue reading

SMITHERS – Northwest Community College's (NWCC) award-winning School of Exploration & Mining (SEM) is poised to share its training expertise with the Inuit People of Quebec’s far north as a result of presenting at a minerals exploration forum there last month. Tony Harris, SEM's Employment Advisor & Industry Liaison, attended... Continue reading

A work readiness mining program for Aboriginals will soon be offered across Canada as a result of a successful pilot project recently completed at Northwest Community College (NWCC) in cooperation with the College’s School of Exploration & Mining (SEM). The program was offered in partnership with the Mining Industry Human... Continue reading

The number of students registering in online courses offered by Northwest Community College’s (NWCC) Continuing Education & Industry Training (CEIT) department has increased significantly. And as a result of the surge in student numbers, the department’s online learning partner, Ed2Go.com, has featured the College as a success story in its... Continue reading

Check out the new Women in Mining video on You Tube that features photos of present and past female students from Northwest Community College’s School of Exploration & Mining. The video was produced by Nikao Group Productions in association with evalu8.org Media Inc. to encourage more women to explore career... Continue reading

Northwest Community College (NWCC) is starting to offer more industry training in more locations as a result of increased demand related to the recent provincial government approval of the Northwest Transmission Line. In partnership with BC Hydro, NWCC’s Continuing Education & Industry Training (CEIT) department will offer two weeks of... Continue reading

Northwest Community College’s (NWCC) School of Exploration & Mining (SEM) will offer a core technician course in Terrace for the first time next month with the help of a local company. ALS Chemex, the minerals division of parent company ALS Laboratory Group, will host SEM’s 6-day Drill Core Technician program... Continue reading

Every Friday, the Culinary Arts students at NWCC Terrace Campus sell organic sausages and bacon made from scratch with meat from the Hazeltons. I'm not a big meat eater but it all looked so delicious – and was so affordable – that a couple weeks ago, I bought 2 lbs... Continue reading