20-04-2009 Vocational Training in Welding at Yerevan State Industrial College
On April 16, BRIDGE public works program launched a vocational training program at the Yerevan State Industrial College. It is the first time that BRIDGE provides training in welding. The training was developed as a response to the strong need for welders in Armenia. BRIDGE and the College administration jointly developed a welding program based on the one-year nationally recognized curriculum currently taught by the College. This is the first short-term welding program designed in Armenia – aimed to provide welding training through continuing education, and not through the pedagogical (vocational high school) system. The welding program incorporates electric arc welding and gas welding cutting. It will last three and a half months – one-month classroom and two and a half-months internship. The College staff will deliver the training to sixteen unemployed youth that applied to the program and were approved for the vocational training course. The trainees will take their internship at the colleges’ modern welding laboratory established and equipped by the UNDP under its 2006-08 Vocational Educational Training project. The College Director has identified job places for all sixteen youth – ensuring that all trainees will find jobs immediately after passing their course.
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