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ECE students take colourful approach to hands-on learning
First-year early childhood education (ECE) students left their classroom for the child care center to get their first real-world experience working with children. For their art implementation assignment, students paired up to observe the children at the playground to determine their interests. The...

Generous gift will modernize bison handling facilities and enhance student learning
Lakeland College students working with Canada’s first post-secondary commercial bison herd will soon do so with state-of-the-art handling facilities thanks to a generous $150,000 donation from Ken Wasmuth. The gift was announced today at the Vermilion campus. The college purchased land south of...

Lakeland College reports fall term enrolment increase
Lakeland College is welcoming more students to campus and online studies this fall. In fact, fall term 2024 enrolment is up 12 per cent over the previous fall. This is the fourth consecutive increase in fall term enrolment at Lakeland. As of Sept. 27, there were 2,859 full-time and part-time students...

More than meals: ESE students cook for classmates
For students in Lakeland College’s Employment Skills Enhancement (ESE) program, the Big Cook is about more than learning to budget and follow a recipe; it’s an opportunity to work together to ensure their fellow classmates have access to healthy, homecooked meals all semester long. Together,...

Award-winning designs send IDT grads to Vegas
Recent interior design technology (IDT) graduates Meghan King and Mamie Granger will travel to an international design show in Las Vegas as part of their prize for placing in the National Kitchen and Bath Association’s (NKBA) student design competition. “There’s no one else I’d rather go...