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Secondary school students are very familiar with
University, Community Colleges and Apprenticeships, but most people know
very little about Private Career Colleges. That is why we will be devoting
a significant amount of space on this web site to help you understand more
about how most private career colleges operate.
| There are over 450 registered Private Career Colleges in Ontario.
Some of the colleges are small, with fewer than 50 students, while
others have over 1000 students enrolled at any given time.
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| All Private Career Colleges offer diploma and/or certificate programs that, for the
most part, can also be obtained through Community Colleges;
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| All diploma programs have been approved by the Ministry of
Education and are closely monitored for compliance;
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| Private Career Colleges do not offer as many diploma programs as
Community Colleges, but the ones they do offer are recognized by all
employers as providing training that is at least as good as one would obtain
through a community college
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| The main reason for the small number of different programs offered
by private career colleges is that when people turn to a private
career college for guidance and assistance, they are searching for a
way to get into a desired career. Therefore, the private career
colleges try to offer the courses which will have the best chance of
accomplishing that primary goal of the students;
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| The difference between Private Career Colleges and Community
Colleges is not so much in the content of the program, but rather in the
method of delivery. |
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Registered
Private Career Colleges of Ontario |
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In the City of Greater Sudbury |
CTS College
Everest College
Academy of Learning
Sudbury Hairstyling School and Academy of Aesthetics
Sudbury Regional Hairstyling School
Northern Academy of Transportation
Transport Training Centres of Canada
Northern Welding Academy
81 West Training Centre Inc. |
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GENERAL
INFORMATION ABOUT PRIVATE CAREER COLLEGES |
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Private
Career College programs appeal to students who need practical skills to enter the work
force as quickly as possible. |
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students of Private Career Colleges have been affected by companies
which have downsized or have gone out of business;
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| These students are forced to find other employment
that provides them with the same level of pay that they were
getting in their former job in order to support their family;
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| They take one of the private career college programs so that
they can get back into a new career as quickly as possible and
begin earning income;
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| Students
in this situation are not interested in all of the
"frills". All they want is the basic training to get
started in a new career. |
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Private
Career College students may not be particularly interested more academic studies
at this point in their life. |
| Many of the people who turn to a private
career college are former secondary school graduates who have
been working for a period time and want something more in
terms of a career. They do not want an
"education" - they want a career.
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| Others are students who have been in school
for a long period of time and just want to get out as soon as
possible. They don’t want to go to school for another two or
three or four years. They simply want to get in and get out and learn
what they need to learn in order to qualify for another job or
career.
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| It has been said that young people graduating
from secondary school today will have four or five different
careers in their lifetime. This is a prospect that quite
frankly frightens some students. The last thing they want to
hear is that they will be going to school four or five more
times during their working life.
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| When it comes time to change careers, many
people will
likely want to turn to a Private Career College for training because you can get qualified in a
short period of time instead of having to go back to school for
several years with students who are generally much younger
than you. |
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Private career colleges are also starting to get a lot of students who may have actually
completed a University degree program, but who are now looking for
specific practical skills in order to get into a career. |
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young people do not really know what they want to do
with their life by the time they graduate from high school. As
a result, they enter a university program that gives them a general
education but does not give them the practical skills that
employers are looking for today.
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lot of students who are now enrolling at private career
colleges have taken one or two years of University and
then decide that it is not for them. They then take one of the
private career college programs in order to get some meaningful employment in
a chosen career.
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| Many
of the students who have partially completed university
degrees will return to university and take one course per year
to complete their degree while they are working in their new
career. These students have the best of both worlds. As they
are building up experience in their new career, they are
completing their degree so that after five or more years they
will have the experience and the education to advance in the
career of their choice. |
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Secondary School students in Grades 10 through 12 are beginning to ask
questions about Private Career Colleges because of the success of
the new guidance curriculum. |
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Career Colleges are getting a lot of inquiries from secondary
school students who have already decided what they want to do
as far as a career is concerned.
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| Many
of these students are much more mature than 17 and 18 year
olds were twenty or thirty years ago.
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| They
are ready, know what they want out of life, and do not see the
need to waste
three or four years living the life of a student in a
university or college..
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students want to begin their career as soon as possible.
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is why some private career colleges have decided to sponsor
special seminars designed to reinforce what is being taught at secondary
schools in the guidance and business programs.
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| The
Grade 10 Career Studies Program, found in the Secondary School
Curriculum in Ontario schools, helps students become more
aware of all of their options. One of those options which is
gaining in popularity is the Private Career College, of which
very little is known. This web site has been designed to make
you more acquainted and familiar with the private career
college option. |
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