Tackle your labour shortages head onHydro Ottawa teamed with Algonquin College to groom next generation.
What if 40 per cent or more of your workforce was eligible for retirement within the next 10 years? Click here to read the article as it appeared in the February 4, 2015 edition of the Ottawa Business Journal.
Canada Apprentice Loan program, introduced in 2014 Federal Budget and long advocated for by Polytechnics Canada, will provide apprentices with an additional form of financial support in the form of interest free loans during their training.
(Ottawa, January 9, 2015) Hundreds of Algonquin College current and future apprentices could benefit from a new federal loan program, which is now open to Red Seal Trade apprentices.
The Canada Apprentice Loan program, a 10-year program announced in the 2014 federal budget, is designed to assist apprentices in completing their training, and to encourage more Canadians to consider a career in the skilled trades.
The program offers assistance of up to $4,000 to apprentices for a maximum of five periods of technical training. These loans are interest-free for up to six years, provided the apprentice is registered in an approved Red Seal Trade apprenticeship program.
The loans are intended to defray program costs, including educational fees, tools and equipment, living expenses and forgone wages.
“We believe this new program will make apprentices at all postsecondary institutions more successful in their studies,” says Cheryl Jensen, President, Algonquin College. “This program will help alleviate the financial worries faced by apprentices who step away from work to upgrade their skills. We applaud the government for recognizing the importance of supporting those pursuing a hands-on career in the skilled trades at polytechnic institutions like Algonquin College.”
“Canada Apprentice Loans will enable more apprentices to pursue the next level of their technical training at so many training institutions and organizations in Canada,” says Nobina Robinson, Chief Executive Officer of Polytechnics Canada. “These loans, complemented by many other supports the government has opened for trades trainees across Canada, will help to ease the risk faced by apprentices who have to resign from jobs to gain the next level of training and certification in their trade.”
For more information on the Canada Apprentice Loan program, visit www.pca-cal.ca.
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For more information, please contact:
Phil Gaudreau
Communications Officer, Algonquin College
Phone: 613-727-4623 ext 2091
Email: gaudrep@algonquincollege.com
Email preferred
Ken Doyle
Director of Policy, Polytechnics Canada
Phone: 613-688-0690
Email: kdoyle@polytechnicscanada.ca
About Algonquin College – www.algonquincollege.com:
The mission of Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is to transform hopes and dreams into skills and knowledge, leading to lifelong career success. Algonquin College does this by offering hands-on, digitally connected applied learning in over 185 programs. Based in Canada’s capital, the Ottawa Valley, and Saudi Arabia, Algonquin College is the largest polytechnic institute in Eastern Ontario with 18,000 full-time and 37,000 part-time and online registrants.
About Polytechnics Canada – www.polytechnicscanada.ca
Polytechnics Canada is the voice of leading research-intensive, publicly funded colleges and institutes of technology. We are dedicated to helping colleges and industry create jobs for tomorrow through the innovation and talent of our students and graduates. Last year, Polytechnics Canada’s member institutions provided the technical training for over 40,000 apprentices in over 200 programs. Algonquin College is one of 11 Polytechnics Canada members.
One of our 3rd year students, Martin Somers, is scheduled to be on the CBC show “All in a Day” this Tuesday, December 9th between 3:00-3:30 pm., to discuss his group’s project on the Windmill Isles site. He will be joined by one or two students from the Applied Museum Studies program as well.
Three other 3rd year students, Wes Ranger, Jeff Woodward and Adam Thomas, are mentioned in this article in the Ottawa Sun http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/12/04/construction-on-old-domtar-lands-could-begin-in-spring-2015 .
You may also want to click on this link to read what the Ottawa Business Journal had to report on Algonquin College’s participation in the Isles project.
Plenty of modern entries in this year’s Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association 2014 Housing Design Awards, according to Architectural Technology Professor Chris Hewett. Read this look ahead to the weekend awards ceremony in the Ottawa Citizen.
In response to Algonquin College’s Perth Campus, staff and faculty of the Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on Friday afternoon, September 5th. Watch the clip and find out who we nominated to continue the challenge.
Come join us for the unveiling of a sixteen foot pepper grinder, made by students and faculty in Algonquin College’s Cabinetmaking program, that holds over two million peppercorns.
The Algonquin College community is invited to celebrate the nine students and two faculty members who, on their own time, have built what will soon be certified as the World’s Largest Pepper Grinder.
Nine students in the Cabinetmaking and Furniture Technician program were given the challenge of building something large that would test their hands-on skills in new and different ways. After researching their options, and with assistance from their professors, the team decided to beat the record, held by an Etobicoke, Ontario restaurant, for the World’s Largest Pepper Grinder.
This event will include an official measuring, photographs, and a demonstration, which will be documented and sent to Guinness World Records to make it official!
Cabinetmaking students Declan Thomas, Andrew Carver, Rodrigue Dagenais, Jihad Farhat, Eric Beuman, Liam Cluff-Clyburne, James Brint, Spencer Olivastri, and Cameron Larsen
Professors John and Mike McKinlay-Key, Cabinetmaking program
Where and when:
ACCE Building lobby, Ottawa campus, Algonquin College
1385 Woodroffe Avenue, Ottawa, Canada
Thursday, August 14th from 10:00 – 11 a.m.
WPD Update: CBC Radio interviewed Michelle Branigan from Electricity HR Canada about “Women of Power… careers in electric industry”. A huge thank you to Leacross Foundation, Hydro One and Algonquin College’s Workforce and Personal Development for the success of the Women into Electrical Engineering Technology (WEET) Program.
Without these great partnerships, successful programs such as WEET would be difficult to execute. WPD continues to develop strong partnerships to better prepare students in achieving their ultimate career goal.
Please click here to listen to the interview with CBC Radio.
The Algonquin College Foundation is pleased to announce a new $25,000 endowment that was created by BECOR to support students facing financial challenges who are enrolled in the Building Science program in the Faculty of Technology and Trades. BECOR is a nonprofit organization founded in 1988 and is committed to promoting advanced technologies and techniques in the design, construction and performance of the building envelope. The initial disbursement of this fund will take place in the 2014-2015 academic year. Thank you to BECOR for making a difference in the lives of our students today and for generations to come.
From left to right: Chris Janzen, Former Dean, Faculty of Technology and Trades, Algonquin College, Eric Marois, Former Chair, Architecture, Civil and Building Science, Algonquin College, Peter Fridgen, BECOR Board Member, Silvio Plescia, BECOR Board Member, Helene Roche, BECOR President, Tony Colantonio, BECOR Board Member
The Algonquin Centre for Construction Excellence is once again being featured in the upcoming Doors Open Ottawa event, taking place Saturday June 7th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at many locations across the city. Doors Open Ottawa is the region’s largest heritage event, unlocking over 100 of the area’s most architecturally interesting and historically significant buildings, many of which are not normally open to the public on the first weekend in June, annually. Click on the following link to find out more details on this event.
Earlier this month, thirteen Algonquin College students attended the Ontario Technological Skills Competition, and we are pleased to announce three winners! Congratulations to Stan Larose who took Gold in the Automotive Service Technician competition, Spencer Livingston who took Silver in Truck and Coach, and Brennan Lane who took Bronze in Cabinetmaking. The Ontario Technological Skills Competition is the largest skilled trades’ competition in Canada and has been compared to the “Olympics of Skilled Trades”. For more information on this competition please visit – http://www.skillsontario.com/index.php/en/competitions/otsc