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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.

The law sets out standards and requirements regarding things like:

• curricular content
• methodology
• learning materials
• instructor qualifications
• instructional facilities
• security bonding
• operational practices (contract, refunds, fees etc)

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