Minister of Labour, Joseph Hamilton is pushing to have the local aeronautical engineering school registered with the Board of Industrial Training as an Apprentice Master training institution.
This was stated in a release on November 28 from the Ministry of Labour which also informed that on Friday, November 25, Hamilton, accompanied by the Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Industrial Training, Richard Maughn, visited the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School and met with the Chairman of the School Board, Captain Paul Ronald Reece; General Manager, Nalini Chanderban; and Public Relations Consultant, Kit Nascimento.
The minister took part in a meeting where he discussed having the school registered with the Board of Industrial Training as an Apprentice Master training institution. The intention is to target students who may not meet the entrance requirements but can also be trained in skill sets that are common in engineering, with a view to expanding the scope of the school’s operations to cover more competency-based vocational areas.
Whilst there, the Minister also toured the school and met with staff and students and was full of praise for the many females who were enrolled in the training programme. He encouraged the students to pursue their passion and to persevere in their studies.
According to the release, some of the students were sponsored by the Guyana Defence Force Air Corps (since 1999), the Guyana Police Force, the Ministry of Public Service, and the regional students by Carib-bean Airlines Ltd, LIAT, and Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Suri-name. In addition to Guyanese students are persons from Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, St Vincent, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
The release also informed that the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineering School accepts students onto its Ab-Initio Training Programme to become licensed aircraft maintenance engineers and they also receive an associate degree in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering.
The Minister tasked the Board of Industrial Training to establish a partnership with the Art Williams and Harry Wendt Aeronautical Engineer-ing School at the earliest opportunity in order to design and deliver an expanded curriculum of vocational training, targeting students in all regions of Guyana, the release added.
