Company Overview

Since 1896, Willis College of Business & Technology has been standing as an ongoing testament to the creativity, tenacity, and strength of Canadian private career colleges, earning a reputation for high standards and quality services.

We specialize in career, corporate and supervised e-learning skills development for the business, technology, and clean energy sectors. Located in Canadas Capital and with campus in China, Willis College is approved and recognized by the Ontario Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities, Quebecs Ministry of Education, the Canadian Government, Canadian Universities and Global Industry Certification providers. Willis primary core business is in skills/career training and education programs that are job specific and highly tuned to the global job market demands.

Our 108 years of training excellence along with our highly innovative partnerships with various strategic partners in both the private and public sectors and our alliances with national and international leading organizations ensure our integrity and accountability.

Knowledge Transfer: Willis College is committed to achieving and maintaining leadership for Canadian suppliers in the delivery of education, training, professional development and continuous learning solutions in the developing world where human capacity building is the highest priority. Our train-the-trainers and curriculum development expertise has been acknowledged as community development at its best.

Curriculum and Academics: The College offers a wide variety of accredited courses to career and corporate clients with specialization in e-business, networking, IT security, multimedia web design, software development, customer support, office applications, supply chain management, entrepreneurship, business management and clean/renewable project analyst technologies. The curriculum consists of a solid foundation in theory followed by the application of that theory. We strive to help students acquire skills and knowledge that can be transferred to other related areas of the curriculum and are very careful in sequencing the modules in a program to ensure a solid foundation is laid and to allow for some cyclical learning. Our approach is based on best practices Five Pillars of Career and Community Development model and on the results of this research. Furthermore, we aim for the higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy by engaging the students in debates, posing thought-provoking questions and assigning application exercises and real-world projects that help them apply the theory they have learned in class to situations they will encounter in the workplace.

Instructors and Quality of Instruction: Willis instructors generally have a Masters degree and experience (practitioners) in the field they are working within. Exceptions do happen when a person has the right mix of experience and instructional capability. The key is for our instructors to have excellent communication and leadership skills combined with knowledge and experience in the field they are teaching. All instructors are evaluated twice a year formally but also at the end of each course; the students complete a course evaluation form that provides us with feedback so that improvements may continually happen.

Student Services: We provide counselling, evaluations, financial assistance, Government Security Clearances, tuition tax receipts, accredited diplomas, university degree credits, certificates, industry certifications, prior learning assessment tools, access to computers and our network, student hardware loans, student email accounts and web sites, projects with real clients, career preparation, Job search and entrepreneurship seminars, job placement and in-class & supervised online instruction services.

Markets: Willis College is focused on providing a wide variety of clients with the very best business, technology and clean energy training. Because our focus is on providing training, human resources development and e-learning capabilities, Willis College is an ideal partner for the global marketplace.

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Legal Name: The Willis Business College Limited

Number of Employees: 50

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• Certifications And Accreditations For Educational
• E-learning Enterprise & Training

  Willis College provides counselling, evaluations, financial assistance, Government Security Clearances, tuition tax receipts, accredited diplomas, university degree credits, certificates, train-the-trainers services, industry certifications, prior learning assessment tools, access to computers and our network, student hardware loans, student email accounts and web sites, projects with real clients, career preparation, Job search and entrepreneurship seminars, job placement and in-class & supervised online instruction services.

• It Training
• Other Education And Training Services
• Training/Curriculum Development
• Vocational/Technical

NAICS Categories

• 611210 Community Colleges and C. e. g. E. P. s

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