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$13.6 -million Ontario Co-op
Diploma Apprenticeship
Program will create space
for 92 more students
at Fanshawe College
A 13.6 -million dollar Ontario Co-op
Diploma Apprenticeship Program will create
spaces for 92 students at Fanshawe College
in London.
Fanshawe's share will be 1.3 million dollars
over four years.
But the co-ordinator of the Ontario Youth
Apprenticeship Program for the Avon
Maitland District School Board said the pro-
gram will also be a great help in raising the
visibility of apprenticeship programs and the
viability of skilled trades as careers.
Glenn McGregor said the shortage of
skilled trades people is a national crisis and
he believes it's going to get worse before it
gets better.
But McGregor said some parents and teach-
ers still have problems seeing skilled
as a viable career option. He said
the new program will help change
that.
"The Co-op Diploma
Apprenticeship actually gives some
teeth to an apprenticeship program
for someone that thinks that it may
not be enough education for them,"
said McGregor, "because it's a dual
certificate program where they get
their college certification plus they
get their apprenticeship certifica-
tion."
McGregor said some parents who
previously saw college or university
as the only options for their child
are now having second thoughts.
He said parents who had never
considered apprenticeship programs
are now calling him for more infor-
mation about programs, partly
because they're seeing ads in news-
papers looking for skilled trades
people and offering attractive
salaries.
He said another selling point is
the cost of the education is consider-
ably lower. With the current critical
shortage of trades people, jobs in the
skilled trades offer security that
isn't available in many other fields.
McGregor said he believes the
shortage of skilled tradespeople will
be with us for at least another 10
years.
In larger centres some employers
trades
are encouraging skilled people to stay on the
job past their scheduled retirement date and
in some cases they're trying to coax former
employees out of retirement.
McGregor said those skilled people are
needed on the job, but they're also the people
who train the apprentices.
He said it takes five years to fully train an
apprentice and one more concern now is that
the skilled people are retiring before the
younger people can be trained.
McGregor said one of the things that will
get more people into apprenticeship programs
is a better understanding of the opportunities
offered in skilled trades and he said the new
Ontario Co-op Diploma Apprenticeship
Program will help provide that.
By Bob Montgomery
The Huron Expositor • October 12, 2005 Page 11
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