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Private Training Schools
Private training schools – sometimes called ‘career colleges’ – offer post-secondary vocational training which is meant to prepare a person for employment in an occupational field. Examples: accounting and business, office administration, truck-driving, hairdressing and aesthetics, flying, computer technology, counselling, nursing-home and personal care, heavy-equipment operation, travel and tourism, call-centre service, classroom teaching assistance, etc.Such schools are privately owned and operate sometimes in a non-profit way but usually as a for-profit business.
Because students commit a lot of time and money to this kind of career preparation, and because employers count on training to produce competent employees, Prince Edward Island (and every other province) has a law to regulate private training schools. The chief aim is to protect students, to ensure that:
- the school is stable, so that students are not likely to be stranded part-way through their training, and
- the training is satisfactory according to expectations in the industry, so that graduates are employable.
- curricular content
- methodology
- learning materials
- instructor qualifications
- instructional facilities
- security bonding
- operational practices (contract, refunds, fees etc)
