The Assiniboine Community College has announced that they have partnered with the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples to deliver a new program at their Brandon Campus.
The new program is a tuition-free Agriculture Equipment Operator program that is open to Indigenous (First Nations, Metis and Inuit) people living off-reserve beginning February 28, 2022.
The program will train the students to work on skills for a variety of farm operations including grain/oilseed and pulse forage operations. During the program, students will gain skills with all types of equipment, systems and safety regulations in the hopes of getting a job in the agriculture industry.
The program will offer a wide variety of in-class material as well as hands-on training to work a variety of Canadian farms. Students will be attending in-person classes full-time in Brandon as well as travelling to a practicum farm site.
The 13-week program includes:
- a 1-week preparatory course component (February 28, 2022 to March 4, 2022)
- an 11-week Agriculture Equipment Operator program, and finally (March 7, 2022 to May 13, 2022)
- an 80-hour paid work placement (May 16, 2022 to May 27, 2022)
Anyone interested in this program must attend an online information session either this afternoon at 2 pm or January 25 at 2 pm as part of their application.
For all the information about the course head to the colleges' website here.
