Further Education calendar offered in a new way

Times Reporter   

 

In the past Wheatland Further Education have printed a course calendar each fall and spring outlining the upcoming courses. They found that two things were happening. 

One, people would look through the calendar and find a course they wanted to take and then the calendar would get misplaced and the person would forget about the course. 

The second thing is that sometimes a course will be offered, say in jewelry making, and it’s quite popular. The instructor states they would love to return after seeing the excitement of the course and a new session is set up but there hasn’t really been a way of properly informing the community and then Further Education doesn’t get enough people to run the course and they are disappointed. 

“So this session what we have decided to do is, we have all of our courses listed on the website so people can go to the website and there’s a registration form there, they can register right on the website,” said Lin Walker with Wheatland Further Education.

“Every month in the (Strathmore) Times we are going to bring all the courses for the next month forward.”

In the Jan. 18 edition of the paper all of the courses were posted that are currently scheduled until the end of June. Every month there will be a new advertisement that will list the courses for the next month, giving people an extra month to prepare, or refreshing their memory about a course they may have forgotten. The ad is for the convenience, the constant reminder, and the ability to be able to add in new courses said Walker.

By going to the website, www.wfes.ca, people will also be able see what courses are coming up. In Sept. 2012 Wheatland Further Education moved into their new locat9ion at A1 Country Lane Mall, 510 Hwy 1. 

Anyone interested in a particular course, either as a teacher or a participant, can send Wheatland Further Education an email at wfes@telus.net or phone at 403-901-3175.