Today will see the first in a series of graduations across the country as 726 participants in the last year’s Apprenticeship Programme under the National Training Programme for Youth Empowerment (NTPYE) receive their certificates of completion,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, says Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Industrial Training,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, Alana Brassington.The programme which is conducted over six months is open to any Guyanese between the ages of 15 and 25. This student must be willing to learn certain trades first hand.If an applicant expresses a desire to operate in any of the training areas offered,NHL Jerseys From China, then they are placed with a company that actually operates within that field. There they serve as an apprentice. Over the six-month period they gain firsthand knowledge of the job and develop specific skills necessary to work in the field.They are also supplied with a number of basic skills in other areas,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, such as remedial Maths and English as well as training in certain life skills such as HIV/AIDS awareness and Planned Parenthood.According to Brassington, the trainees are not left entirely to their own devices at the companies. They are trained in accordance with core curriculum that are models of the ones used at the Government Technical Institute.Classroom materials are culled from the core curriculum since most of the apprentices are doing actual hands-on work.She noted that these curriculums are evaluated along with the training providers to create specific timeframes for the completion of certain tasks. As a result,Cheap Jerseys From China, when the Board’s inspectors make their monthly checks on the apprentices throughout the country, they are able to measure the progress of each apprentice against a checklist of preset deliverables.Training is undertaken in almost every Region of the country. The exceptions are Regions Eight and Nine where the communities are too widely spread out and too far into the hinterlands for easy access.Brassington cited this as a constraint to the programme in a number of Hinterland locations since the apprentices are awarded? $4,Jerseys From China,000 as travelling stipend each month.The Board therefore tries not to place them too far away from their homes – clearly a difficult task considering the distance between settlements in certain regions. The intent is to ensure that the number of drop outs is not exacerbated by factors such as the training being too far away or too costly for the applicant.Brassington will be present at every graduation ceremony over the next few days. She makes it a point to chair them all. This first one is being held in the Essequibo area to allow for the graduation of Region One and Two NTYPE Apprentices.