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Entries from May 2008

Trading Up: new Canadian program helps women

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Canada · Women in Trades

Chicken Soup for the Soul wants your trade school decision tales!

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Trade Schools

Questionable trade school Silver State Helicopters may face enquiry

May 25th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Questionable trade school practices · Trade Schools

Pasadena fairgrounds construction expo

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

http://industrialconstructionhr.blogspot.com/2008/05/construction-expo.html
Click here to learn more about construction schools .

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Tags: Trade Organizations · Trade Schools · Trades and Culture

Father and daughter mechanical duo

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Women in Trades

16th annual Oregon Women in Trades career fair a success

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Trade Organizations · Trade Schools · Trades Related Events · Women in Trades

An “economic time bomb:” the worsening lack of skilled workers

May 7th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Canada · Skilled Trades Shortage

Trade school shams and the dangers of unaccredited schools

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Questionable trade school practices · Trade Schools

Canadian survey says… go to trade school

May 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Canada · Income in Trades · Trade Schools · Trades and Culture