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Province Kicks in Cash to Help Apprentices Get Training

By 250 News

Friday, October 07, 2005 02:06 PM

The Province will provide $2.2 million in new funding to reduce waitlists for industry training courses throughout the province.  It is supposed to help apprentices move to the next level of their training.

The funding announced today is in addition to the $1.4 million provided to colleges last year to help reduce waitlists. The new funding will provide for 1,450 additional apprenticeship technical training spaces between now and next April. Currently, there are 22,825 active trainees/apprentices pursuing industry training in B.C.

“Creating more training spaces is perhaps the single most important step government could take to help fuel B.C.’s strong economy,” said Philip Hochstein, executive vice-president of the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association. “More career training means a brighter future for thousands of British Columbians, both young and old, and this announcement is just what B.C.’s construction industry has been asking for.”





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Comment Posted by: chloe on October 7 2005 4:39 PM
Finally, but the province should also look at where they offer specific courses. For example they offer the entry level Commercial Transport Mechanic(CMT) course here in pg but you then have to go to either kamloops or burnaby to finish your CMT apprenticeship. The province really needs to look at the numbers of students from the north going south to finish their training. I know of someone who has said that every year that he has gone south to kamloops at least 85% of his class was from williams lake north. They have qualified teachers here to provide training for the CMT course. The cost that the government would save by not having to pay as much money in travel expenses (through EI) to these apprentices from the north; i imagine the savings would be phenominal.