Advanced Education Branch

Advanced Education provides education, training, employment and other services to prepare Yukoners for the labour force. We develop and implement programs by working closely with other YTG departments, the federal government, business, labour organizations, Yukon College, First Nations, equity groups and other provincial jurisdictions.

The Yukon Training Strategy  and the Yukon's Labour Market Development Agreement are two major strategies that determine the direction for training Yukon's labour force.

The programs and services that we currently offer through our Branch are:

• Apprenticeship and Tradesperson Qualifications
• Student Training and Employment
• Student Financial Assistance
• Training Trust Funds*
• Older Workers Project*
• Immigration Settlement Services*
• Registration of Trade Schools*

Sometimes more specific strategies are developed to ensure that we use appropriate approaches to train specific sectors of our labour force.  Examples of these initiatives are:

Women in Apprenticeship
Youth Strategy
Aboriginal Apprenticeship
Yukon Literacy Stategy 2001
Southeast Yukon Oil and Gas Training Needs Assessment*

*Contact Advanced Education for more information.

Advanced Education
Department of Education
Government of Yukon
Box 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 2C6

Phone: (867) 667-5131
Toll free (In Yukon):
1-800-661-0408, local 5131
Fax: (867) 667-8555

contact.education
@gov.yk.ca