Atlantic Canada: Apprenticeship System

apprenticeship system: The announcement was more specifically about the harmonization of the apprenticeship system in Atlantic Canada, with the premiers promising it would allow more people to continue through apprenticeship to journeyperson status, helping to address the skills shortage in certain areas and sectors within Canada. , according to The Telegram. Until now, because of differences in training from one location to the next, workers active on a job in another province would sometimes have to uproot in order to return to where they began their training, simply to complete required exams and classroom time unavailable in their province of work. According to Advanced Education and Skills Minister Kevin O Brien, the problem being addressed is not in workers being able to punch in their required, supervised work hours. Instead, he said, the problem came with required classroom or in-school training. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.