God bless those Canadians and their programs to help people get back to work! The Canadian government has announced a new program called Trading Up that will target “disenfranchised women” and help them get back into school such as trade schools and other educaitonal programs to help them upgrade skills.
“Women have always had a history [...]

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There’s a new Chicken Soup for the Soul (Teens Talk High School) book and they are looking for – among other things – your stories about career decisions. Tell them how and why you decided to go to trade school and there could be publication and some $$ in it for you. Submissions can be [...]

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This is a story we have been following with some interest:
In part to help protect against more sham/scam trade schools and to investigate whether scammed trade school students can get some financial recompense, a US senator wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Silver State Helicopters’ business practices.
Senator Bill Nelson,  a member of the Senate’s [...]

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The Toronto Star profiles a local family.
http://www.thestar.com/Business/SmallBusiness/article/421957
You can learn more about the automotive industry by clicking on the link here: learn about automotive job futures, what a day as a mechanic is like and find automotive courses.

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There are some inspiring stories of pioneering women in skilled trades and other stories that’ll get you pumped to make the jump to trade school in this article about the Oregon Tradeswomen’s 16th annual Women in Trades career fair. The story is here.

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Canada’s prime minister gathered that country’s provincial premieres last fall to focus on what he considered Canada’s biggest problem: the deepening lack of skilled workers. Some Conservative strategists for Harper call the situation an “economic time bomb.” In the last 50 years, the workforce in Canada has grown by 200 % but over the next [...]

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Excellent article from Higher Ed Watch concerning the dangers of attending an unaccredited trade school. It discusses the fallout from the collapse of Silver State Helicopters in Nevada.
Read about trade school shams to beware of.

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A report by statistics Canada  shows that young people are actually making less than their parents.
Among the interesting conclusions of the report:
“These days, young people are staying in school longer and men are less likely to find full-time work once they finish, unless they work in the trades [emphasis ours, of course].”
Read more here.

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