This program is designed for the person who wants a career as a professional chef, eventually moving into kitchen management. In the first year, you learn all the fundamentals including cooking and presentation techniques. The second year gives you the advanced culinary and management skills required of the professional chef and kitchen manager. These include inventory and food costs, purchasing, and planning menus.
Our motto is "real time, real food, real people." This program immerses you in the fast-paced world of the commercial kitchen, and gives you a solid foundation for an entry-level position as a commercial cook with a possible future career as a professional chef.
Are you a compassionate individual who cares about the well being of others? Are you able to be flexible and adapt to varying work schedules? As a Continuing Care Assistant, you provide respectful, empathic, ethical care and support to vulnerable citizens in your community. This program provides you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in this rewarding career.
This program provides an opportunity to get the skills needed to work as a community disability support worker. In this field you help support individuals to live full and rich lives and promote their full citizenship.
This program is perfect for those who want to learn more than the basics of carpentry. Energy efficiency, environmental concerns, business skills, and entrepreneurship are integral components of the program. This program is designed to meet the needs of employers looking for carpenters with a firm practical skill base across a wide range of applications. You learn everything from construction safety and the use of power tools and shop equipment, to building science, floor and wall framing, exterior finishing, and much more.
Cabinetmaking begins with a love of wood and an eye for detail. Modern cabinetmaking combines the accumulated knowledge of hundreds of years of traditional woodworking, with cutting edge modern tools and technology.
This program gives you great skills in both baking and pastry (including cakes, tortes, cookies, frozen and cream-based desserts), and provides the basis for a career as a head baker or pastry chef. You challenge your inner artist learning how to design and create chocolate/sugar showpieces, create classic European pastries, and perform plated dessert presentations for all types of dining. You work in a real kitchen environment where you learn at a production level and speed that is consistent with industry standards.
This is a challenging and rewarding program that prepares you with the knowledge and skills to assist in assessing, designing, implementing, monitoring, and modifying behavioural interventions to meet a variety of client needs including, but not limited to, those on the autism spectrum.
Nova Scotia's demand for experts who understand, respect, and create traditional breads of many cultures continues to grow. In this program you go from France to Scandinavia, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, several countries of the Middle East, and even San Francisco through bread.
Bricklayers prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, stone, and other masonry units to construct, erect, and repair structures such as walls, partitions, patios, arches, paving, fireplaces, smokestacks, and chimneys. Their work also encompasses the laying of fire brick and other refractory materials used in the construction of industrial furnaces, retorts, and boilers. In this program, you learn to safely construct decorative and load-bearing walls using a variety of tools and equipment.
