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Premier Christy Clark with a College of Caledonia student Tuesday afternoon. The premier toured the facility and announced skills funding
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Premier Christy Clark visited CNC Tuesday to announce the province will provide $17 million to fund equipment for skills training programs across the province. Providing a rough estimate of how that funding will be split up, she said about $5 million will come to the North with a good portion of that going to the college. Clark made the announcement in the new Technical Education Centre at the
college, a $30 million building. “In the last year 51,700 net new jobs were created in the province,” Clark said. Within the next 10 years, there will be one million new job openings according to predictions, and 43 per cent of those jobs will require trades training, she said. “We want to make sure local B.C. people fill those jobs,” Clark said. That means providing not only space and programming, but appropriate equipment to train people on.
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Right now, she said, there is $80 billion in investment in projects underway in the province. Natural gas pipelines, major mining projects, forestry and agri-food industries are growing, and they will need employees. Getting students job ready means providing them the equipment, while training, they are likely to use on the job site. “Some equipment was made the year before I graduated from high school. Think about what has happened the last 30 years in technology,” she said.
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That means graduates from programs won’t be job ready, and will not be able to fill the plethora of openings coming up. “We need to make sure B.C. kids get these jobs,” she said. The new Minister of Advanced Education, John Yap, was also on-hand for the announcement. “We need to have skilled workers ready for the jobs we know are coming,” he said. “Funding is an investment in high quality training.”
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