As part of Apprenticeship Recognition Week, the B.C. government announced that Camosun College will receive more than $331,000 for two innovation pilots that will improve training outcomes and employability for apprentices.

As part of Apprenticeship Recognition Week, the B.C. government announced that Vancouver Island University (VIU) will receive more than $50,500 for an innovation pilot that will improve training outcomes and employability for apprentices.

The British Columbia government announced a $7.44-million investment in Okanagan College for skills training in high-priority trades seats at the college’s newly renovated, $35-million trades training complex in Kelowna.

Young people of Burns Lake will have an opportunity to learn the skills they will need for tomorrow’s in-demand occupations.

It won’t be an easy ride, but for a select few who are ready, a new program will give adults looking for a way out of gang life the tools they’ll need to find meaningful employment, build strong family and community connections and shake their gangster identity for good.  

Skilled trades students in British Columbia secondary schools will be the beneficiaries of a $15-million investment for trades equipment in support of youth trades programs.