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B.C.’s 1,600 public schools with colleges, universities
and libraries.

e Mandatory career planning by students, with
new opportunities for schools to work in partnership
with business and labour on future job market needs.

© Modernizing vocational and technical training,
and introducing applied skills — such as advanced com-

puter literacy — in academic studies.

Opening more doors, and the right
doors, to college and university

By increasing access to real skills at our colleges and
universities, Skills Now will help more young women
and men keep ahead in our changing world:

e Tripling new stadent spaces to 8,100 this year
from 2,700 last year, including $12 million to challenge
colleges and universities to find innovative and cost-
effective ways to teach skills to more students.

e Earning a degree closer to home with the
opening of the University of Northern British Columbia
and degree granting status for BCIT, Emily Carr
Institute of Art and Design, Malaspina University
College, Okanagan University College, University
College of the Cariboo and the University College of
the Fraser Valley.

e Removing barriers to access for students with
disabilities, aboriginal students and single parents.

° New skills training in advanced technologies
such as film animation, environmental management
and computerized mapping.

e Modernizing technical equipment with matching

erants from business.

Retraining workers closer to home

Skills Now will help ensure working men and women.

have new skills for new jobs:

e Labour force development

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e Partnerships. with small business and key sec-
tors — such as B.C.’s Forest Renewal Plan — to share
the responsibility and costs of retraining workers or
updating their skills.

- Expanding and modernizing apprenticeship
programs.

e Taking training into communities by establishing
linked by

10 Community Skill Centres across B.C.
telecommunications and computers — to provide
closer-to-home training and retraining.

¢ Quick response to unexpected training needs

for communities affected by plant closures or expansions.

Moving from welfare to the workforce

Skills Now is a way back into the workforce and into
well-paying jobs:

e Individual training plans for the unemployed
— building on people’s strengths and abilities.

° Matching training to local job needs so people
can stay and work in their own community.

e Learning and earning a living with training
credits for B.C. businesses of up to $10,000 for each
new employee trained.

e Targeted vocational and skills training at

colleges and universities.

Here’s how you can benefit

Through Skills Now, British Columbians will have
greater access to the skills training that will open doors
to jobs and prosperity.

How can you benefit? Skills Now programs will
be coming on line through this year. But you can phone
now and tell us which area of programs you're most
interested in: new high school programs, new university
or college opportunities, retraining for workers, or
training for unemployed British Columbians.

As these programs get closer to

introduction, we can let you know how
through the Skills Now partnership to to take advantage of them.

keep British Columbia on the leading

edge of job training and retraining.

Real skills for the

Please phone us at 1-800-63-SKILL:

Ministry of Skills, Training and.Labour.