Expanding Apprenticeship Success Through Improved and Enhanced System of Technology (EAST Project)
SkillPlan, BC Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council, in partnership with Canada’s Building Trades Unions (CBTU), Provincial Building Trades Councils (PBTC), U7 SOLUTIONS, British Columbia Colleges (BCC), and the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), are providing online educational tools, resources, and materials to support apprentices progressing in and obtaining certification in an apprenticeship in the Red Seal trades. This project will be delivered across Canada. More specifically the project seeks to firstly improve the quality of training in the skilled trades by utilizing a structured, integrated, and accessible online training system and secondly to support Red Seal trades partners to create safe and inclusive workplaces of equity-deserving groups, including women, youth, newcomers, Indigenous and racialized persons, persons with disabilities, as well as low-skilled individuals by expanding training platform and developing new courses. SRDC is helping to test and measure the results of this project through a mixed-methods approach which will include administrative data from online platforms, surveys, and interviews.
Project Details
Capability: Experimentation - Survey Design and Data Management - Strategic Program Review - Behavioural Economics
Policy Area: Adult Learning - Adult Training - Workplace Training - Financial Literacy - Literacy and Essential Skills, Employment - Workplace Diversity and Inclusion - Employment Supports and Services, Post-Secondary Education - Access and Persistence
Population: Newcomers - Older Workers - Women - Youth - Indigenous Peoples - Low-skilled Workers
Start Date: March 2024
Completion Date: March 2028
Sponsors: SkillPlan
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