Apprenticeship and Industry Training (AIT) acknowledges that students who were registered in recognized pre employment, diploma, certificate or Career and Technology Studies (CTS) Apprenticeship Pathways programs have had their training disrupted. Many of these programs would also have included the expectation that students write one or more Alberta period examinations. For those students whose program ran between September 2019 and June 2020, as long as the training provider determines that the training was substantively complete and will not have to be repeated (i.e., they received a passing mark), they will have the associated period examination(s) waived when they register as an apprentice.
For all impacted individuals except for those in a high school CTS Apprenticeship Pathway, the training providers (post-secondary institutions or recognized private training providers) have distributed a letter to those students who successfully completed the qualifying training. When applicants register as an apprentice, they will submit that letter along with a copy of their transcript, diploma or certificate, and will have their examination(s) waived. CTS Pathway students will automatically have the associated exam waived when they register as an apprentice and submit their CTS Course Completion Record showing that the completion occurred in June 2020.
Note: Exams cannot be waived if waiving them would mean the apprentice would never write an Alberta period examination before becoming certified.
When candidates apply to register as an apprentice, they are still subject to Alberta Apprenticeship’s minimum term requirements and must complete one Alberta period examination. If a candidate has never successfully written an Alberta period exam prior to registration, they cannot be exempted from their final exam requirement.
For example, an impacted student who has completed private hairstylist training or the Hairstylist CTS Apprenticeship Pathway can be exempted from the first period exam, but not the second period, if they register as a hairstylist apprentice. However, they cannot be exempted from any exams if they register in the one-period barber apprenticeship program. Other apprenticeship programs that have only one-period, and are ineligible for any exam exemptions, are: auto body prepper; crane and hoisting equipment operator - boom truck, tower crane and wellhead boom truck; heavy equipment technician – transport trailer mechanic; elevator constructor; and welder - wire process operator.
