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CE COURSE LISTING

The Continuing Education Division serves as an outreach arm of the college responsible to sponsor activities including non-credit and short-term training designed to meet pre-service and in-service needs of the community. Continuing Education provides programs and services that empower the community to meet its growing and changing educational and training needs.

1. CE serves the community by offering non-credit programs such as pre-service training for those who are looking for jobs, in-service training for those who are employed and need to enhance and upgrade their skills, workshops, seminars, conferences, conducting community surveys, or apprentice training for persons regardless of their age or previous education, and who are not concerned with earning academic credits but wish to enrich their lives and improve their personal efficiency.

2. CE provides one-on-one advising, counseling and guidance for people interested in acquiring entry-level skills or for employees who need to upgrade themselves.

3. CE offers summer programs, such as keyboarding, computer application, mathematics, English reading and writing, music, art, camping, marine science, and Internet exploration, for school age children.

ENRICHMENT or NON-CREDIT PROGRAMS

Individual programs are developed based on specific requests made by individuals or groups for their immediate and/or long term needs. CE customizes the programs to fulfill the needs of the customers. However, due to high costs of materials, salaries of instructors and adequacy of facilities, CE sets the minimum number of participants at ten (10) for each program offered and reserves the right to change this number. A certificate of enrichment/completion is awarded to individuals who complete the programs and meet the program requirements.

ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS

There is no admission requirement for any of the programs. Regardless of age or background, individuals can choose to attend what is relevant to their needs and interests ranging from basic level, intermediate level and advanced level programs.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE AND LOCATION

Programs are offered throughout the year. Most programs are offered during late afternoon and evenings, weekends, holidays and school breaks. Program offerings are also accessible to all states of Palau depending on the nature of the programs requested and the feasibility of offering programs on site.

FEES AND OTHER CHARGES

The fees for CE programs depend on the following: Duration of the training, instructor salary, materials to be used in the training, equipment, and facility and administrative costs. By setting the minimum number of the participants, this will reduce the fees to an affordable level. The range of fees for each program offered based on the criteria mentioned above start from five dollars to over a hundred dollars. Since there is no federal financial assistance to help the participants attending CE programs, CE encourages individuals or groups who are interested in attending trainings offered to seek other sources of funding.