The faculty of Adult and Continuing Education is responsible for providing all evening courses, English as a second Language courses and the Training and Development Service.

This faculty also provides three certificate level programmes (Legal studies, Childcare Assistants, Geriatric Aides) and two degree programmes (Associate in Arts and Human Services, Associates in Human Services).

This faculty is the entrepreneurial division of the college that incubates programmes and develops courses to meet community needs.

Exciting, terrific, incredible these are just a few of the adjectives Wayne Wilson, Dean of Adult & Continuing Education constantly draws on as you talk to him about his department.

"Demand is there and that's just terrific!'' he exclaimed while revealing that demand actually exceeds what the Bermuda College is currently able to offer.

"Our physical plant is stretched to the limit and we will be looking at creative ways to meet the demand,'' he said.

"It's exciting and terrific that we have this type of support from the public for the programmes we offer.'' Among the ideas under investigation, according to Dean Wilson is to have "different locations down town'' or a "business centre down town'' although he notes that the College "draws equitably across the island'' in its student population.

"A '96/97 survey, register shows a pretty even distribution of people from all across the Island, coming to the college and that's great.'' he pointed out.

Staffing of the department sees a director, Eugenie Simmons, under Dean Wilson with Leonard Santucci as Training a Development Coordinator and three secretaries. Close to 75 part-time adjunct faculty "all subject matter experts'' are also employed.

Admitting that a challenge of the department is often simply finding instructors, Dean Wilson explained that it is expected because of Bermuda's size.

"With a limited population base it can be difficult to find sufficient people with working expertise and a teaching background.'' An 18 hour course offering experts valuable "life preserver skills for teaching'' takes place every year in the autumn and goes a long way to solving the instructor shortage.

Of huge success to the department is the number of partnerships they have been able to build with various organisations and institutions. In April, a partnership with the American Management Association (AMA) resulted in the provision of Management courses locally.

An increase of human resource development programming is to take place by partnering with the Institute for Personal Development (IPD). A mandate to increase the credit and non credit offerings in the technical and computer related professions will see those areas developed also.

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