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Whitby Free Press, 11 Sep 1974, p. 5

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Durham Extension Program This fall Durham College has expanded its continuing education program in all areas and will again offer off-camp- us courses in both Ajax and Uxbridge. A comprehensive calendar, listing more than 300 courses will be delivered to 67,000 households in the College's service area early in September. There is a big increase in the number of General Inter- est courses offered this fall. There are 78 to choose from. Some of the new listings are Antique Collecting, Gun- smithing, Beauty and Charm, Flower Arranging, Macrame, Life Drawing, Ladies' Tailor- ing, and Retirement Planning. Applied Arts courses range from Basic Photography to Psychology. The Business Division offers an excellent selection on courses in Fin- ance and Economics; Manage- ment and Organization; Mar- keting, Advertising and Sales; Business Mathematics and Statistics. There are secre- tarial courses in Typing, Fork- ner and Pitman Shorthand, Medical Science, and Ad- vanced Typing. Technology courses have been considerably expanded. This fall 58 courses are of- fered. These include entirely new areas such as Dental Laboratory Procedures and Dental Radiology. There are special exten- sion certificate programs to help students increase their advancement opportunities in specialized areas such as Ad: vanced Electronics, Computer- Concepts, Mechanical Design and Numerical Control. For the first time, the Nursing Department is offer- ing extension courses. Of special interest to Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants, the subjects include Extension of the Nursing Role, Nursing Sciences 1, Pschiatric Nursing and Understanding the Gerian. There are 10 courses in Computers and Data Process- ing offered by the Business and Technology Divisions. The College offers Academic Upgrading courses for those students who need to im- prove their educational level in basic school subjects. Courses are available from Grade 9 up to Grade 12 and College entrance. A speciai feature of these courses are that they are offered both day and evening. Durham Colle ge continues to offer a Modul ar Training program for stationary engin- eers, an Accounting Corres- pondence program, a Law Clerk's course, Management programs for the Hospitality and Tourist industry and courses for the Purchasing Management Association of Canada, the Canâdian Insti- tute of Traffic and Transpor- tation, the Ontario Real Estate Association, the Socie- ty of Industrial Accountants Association of Ontario. Durham also offers man- agement seminars, customized for a company or industry, as well as University Exten- o sion courses through Scarbor- si ough College, University of Toronto, and Queen's Univer- E sity. c In his foreward to the h 1974 Durham extension bro- î chure, Dr. Gordon Willey a. emphasizes that the college, fi in many instances, now al- lows part time students to work for the equivalent of a day time diploma through accumulating course credits R m 4: WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 1974, PAGE 5 (Crown They did it with a repressive law Employees Collective Bargaining Act). called CECBA It affects the day-to-day rights of the provincial government's own employees: those in the public service as well as community college employees. It restricts our freedom to bargain collectively for improved benefits and working conditions. It denies us the right to settle disputes by choosing between voluntary arbitration and other methods. It requires that disputes be settled by compulsory arbitration. By a board to which the government appoints two out of three members. In short we lose the basic rights enjoyed by other workers. Including other public employees. Our hands are tied by our own employers. So we're falling behind as inflation surges ahead. first-class fight. We want this oppressive law changed. We simply want the same rights as others. And for second-class citizens, we can put up a Free the se Civil Service Association of Ontario I. btained through the exten- passengers were carried on non program.scheduled flights and 20,144 Evening registration for on charters. )urham's fall. programs in Load factor - that is, ontinuing education will be percentage of available seats eld Wednesday, September MONTREAL Air Cana- unusually low passenger vo- filled - on Air Canada's 8, Thursday, September 19 da carried 908.589 passen- lumes mn June, 1973 due to scheduled flights was 67 per rnd Monday, September 23 gers on its domestic and rotating strikes by the Inter- cent, an increase of three per rom 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. international routes during national Association of cent fromn June, 1973. egistration may also be June an increase of 29 per Machinists and Aerospace During the month, the nade by mail, or in person cent over the srne period workers, which disrupted airline flew 1,001,079,000 veekdays from. 9:00 a.m. to last year when 759,226 were flying operations. revenue passenger miles and :45 pm. .carried. 0f tme ne moptb d /f. ,hmne n r ...... Ai Ile*O 6,44 cornpared with 821.572,000. and 22,477,000 respectively in June of last year. Six-month totals for 1974 conpared with 1973 are: passengers - 5,134,240 and 4,589,163 an increase of 12 per cent; revenue passenger miles - 4,761,753,081 and 4,329,725,178 up 10 per cent; and cargo ton miles - 146,317,000 and 137,670,000 an increase of six per cent. The government has 0 made 60,000 Ontarians second~cIass citizens.

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