How is Your Apprenticeship System Structured
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In Alberta, Canada the auto body apprenticeship is structured as follows
The most recent Alberta Auto body apprenticeship is divided into four years
First year: Prepping (4 weeks in school)
Second year: Refinishing (6 weeks in school)
Third year: Repair (7 weeks in school)
Fourth year: Structural Repair (7 weeks in school)Each year requires a certain amount of technical training (approx 1500hrs) under a journeyman. Each apprentice is given a “blue book” in which the journeyman and apprentice keep track and break down hours. You can sometimes attend schooling before you have all your hours but your not recognized as having the school until you have the hours.
Each year of schooling closes with a provincial exam. Auto body is a “Red Seal” trade. The final year of auto body is subject to an optional Red Seal exam in addition to the provincial exam. This is an inter-provincial exam. Passing this certifies you as a journeyman not just in your province but the country.
There are two institutions in Alberta that offer the schooling for this trade the first being the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, the second being the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary.
I’m curious to know how the other apprenticeships are structured in this country and in others
Ontario is the pretty well the same except our schooling blocks are 3 segments of 8 weeks. If you think you can you can also test out of each segment. 1500 hrs is what they want here and the inter-provincial exam is required to work outside of Ontario. This is going through Centenial College in Toronto.
The Schooling can actually be done a number of ways. They have part time evening or day classes which would be 1 day / week for 8 months (each segment). The downside to this is you cannot collect employment insurance for the one day / week, you can only collect if your full time (8 weeks straight).
The apprentice is also given a record book where they have the licensed tech sign off on various tasks performed until the book is completed.
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