Education/training
On campusApprenticeship training will be in the spotlight at an upcoming Sheridan College information event. |
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 [ 2002-04-17 ] |
The Skills Training Centre at Sheridan College is holding a Breakfast Open House on Thursday, April 18, from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., to introduce employers to apprenticeship training opportunities available at the college.
"It's a well-publicized fact that Ontario is facing a critical shortage of certified, skilled tradespeople," says Don Wiles, associate dean of the centre, located at 407 Iroquois Shore Rd. in Oakville.
"We'd like employers to come to our open house to learn how they can help support skills training and, more importantly, how this will benefit their company's bottom line."
The event is being presented in partnership with the Mississauga Apprenticeship Office of the Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities. Attendees will have an opportunity to speak to other employers who are involved with the apprenticeship program, and meet apprentices currently in training.
Sheridan provides training in Tool & Die, General Machinist, Industrial Mechanical Millwright and Electrician -- all trades which are in high demand across southern Ontario.
In addition to offering pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs, the college recently announced a series of updating courses for licensed skilled tradespeople. For a limited time, journeypersons can receive update training for a low fee of $1.70 per training hour.
Updating courses are available in Computer Numerical Control (CNC); Computer Aided Manufacturing; Precision Gauging; Welding; Pneumatic Maintenance; and Hydraulics and Fluid Power.
More information is available from Sheridan's Skills Trades Office at 905-845-9430, ext. 8036.
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Senior officials of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and Humber College have joined forces to create a new curriculum for OPP.
The partnership creates the opportunity for OPP and Humber faculty and staff to design and develop new and innovative programs in partnership, generate specific programs and seminars open to police and student populations, and for the OPP to consider new ways of selecting and recruiting directly from Humber's Police Foundations program.
Beginning this fall, the learning partnership is expected to evolve and develop over its five-year term to support a total human resource development strategy for the OPP workforce. It will cover recruiting and in-service training through to degree completion for all OPP staff, including high command officers.
Humber faculty and OPP instructors will take part in exchanges that will allow professionals in both organizations to bring their teaching expertise to the other.
Humber Police Foundation students will have the opportunity to interact directly with OPP personnel and officers who will be in the classroom, making use of Humber College facilities and taking part in convocation ceremonies.
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