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Ministry of Advanced Education |
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PROVINCE PROVIDES $1M FOR TRADES AT NORTHERN
LIGHTS |
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ST. JOHN – Northern Lights College is
receiving a $1-million boost from the Province to update and enhance trades
training equipment and support the Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence, ministers
Murray Coell and Richard Neufeld and MLA Blair Lekstrom announced today.
“Part of this funding will give students in NLC’s
industrial mechanics program access to the sophisticated instruments used today
for measuring and controlling industrial processes, so they will learn on the
same equipment they will encounter in the field,” said Neufeld, Minister of
Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, and MLA for Peace River North. “We are also
funding the Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence to develop a secretariat that will
ensure education, training and research at the centre is fine-tuned to meet the
needs of industry and students alike.”
The Ministry of Advanced Education is providing Northern
Lights College with $890,000 to buy and install new equipment for the
industrial instrument mechanics program.
“Our surging economy has led to huge demand for
tradespeople all over B.C., and this funding will help Northern Lights and
other post-secondary institutions continue to provide first-rate training on
modern equipment,” said Coell, Minister of Advanced Education. “We’ve invested
almost $119 million since 2001 in trades training equipment and facilities to
help our colleges, university colleges and institutes keep up with today’s
rapid technological change.”
The other $110,000, from the Ministry of Energy, Mines
and Petroleum Resources, will be used to develop the Secretariat for the Oil
and Gas Centre of Excellence, as well as providing equipment for the centre.
“Northern Lights College is an important institution for
all of northeastern B.C., as it allows students to study in or near their
hometowns,” said Lekstrom, MLA for Peace River South. “This funding is going to
improve an important industrial mechanics program that provides workers for the
local oil and gas industry, as well as enhancing the Oil and Gas Centre of
Excellence.”
The
Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence/Jim Kassen Industry Training Centre opened
last fall at Northern Lights College to prepare students to enter the oil and
gas industry and support the growth of B.C.’s economy.
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Ministry of Advanced Education 250 952-6400 250 812-4418 (cell) |
Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources 250 952-0628 |
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