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Red Deer Polytechnic to add 138 apprenticeship seats after recent provincial investment

Sep 28, 2023 | 2:42 PM

Red Deer Polytechnic is adding 360 apprenticeship seats, thanks to two recent provincial investments.

This week, the province announced $12.4 million for 2,000 seats, $800,000 of which will go to RDP for 138 new seats. That’s in addition to $1.3 million received in June as part of the Apprenticeship Learning Grant, which added 222 seats.

“At Red Deer Polytechnic, we are grateful for the Government of Alberta’s growing investment in skilled trades programming to help fulfill labour shortages,” says Lindsay Engel, Vice President, Academic and Student Experience.

“As Alberta’s third largest educator of apprenticeship programming, we are proud to train more than 2,000 apprentices this year, contributing to the economic prosperity of the province.”

RDP offers apprenticeship programming in 17 skilled trades, with learning taking place in-person, online and in a blended format.

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The province said this week there are more than 50,000 registered apprentices in Alberta, a 19 per cent jump from the previous year.

(with files from The Canadian Press)

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