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Speaker 1: Peter Sour is the head of the Trades faculty at

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Speaker 1: Art of Canterbury, so, in other words, the head of trades.

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Speaker 1: A long contender in the trades training space. They started

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Speaker 1: as christ Church Technical School in the early nineteen hundreds.

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Speaker 1: It's been a few different iterations since then. They've got

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Speaker 1: two campuses at Wolston and also Timadoo, and you're pumping

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Speaker 1: out a fair number of hands on trade's a year, Peter.

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Speaker 2: Over the course of year we've seen about three thousand

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Speaker 2: learners come across our doors. So we offer all of

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Speaker 2: the different trades out there. So I mean a lot

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Speaker 2: of people think trade building, but you know we have engineering, plumbing,

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Speaker 2: gas fitting, drain laying, electrical, automotive.

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Speaker 1: Does trades still differ from other studies in the sense

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Speaker 1: that you have the ability to earn as you learn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, that's really attractive. I think if anyone has

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Speaker 2: priced up heading to university lately, I mean you're talking

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Speaker 2: about quite a summer money invested, and obviously over there

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Speaker 2: three to four years of training before you actually get

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Speaker 2: out into the workforce, and that's I guess. Then you

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Speaker 2: start applying for jobs. There's no guarantee of a job

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Speaker 2: whereas most trades you can start even while you're at school,

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Speaker 2: So we do dual enrollment where you can stay at

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Speaker 2: school for three days a week, come to us two

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Speaker 2: days and get ahead trades training.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can start really early if you can

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Speaker 2: start in that year eleven if you really want to,

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Speaker 2: then we do full time trades training for those who

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Speaker 2: are keen on the sector and they can do the six,

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Speaker 2: nine or twelve months with us as a pre trade

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Speaker 2: so to start your trade. And usually most of those

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Speaker 2: courses are covered under the fees fee free training schemes,

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Speaker 2: so that's pretty cool. And then leading into apprenticeships and

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Speaker 2: as you say, you work full time, study part time,

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Speaker 2: and usually over the course of three to four years

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Speaker 2: you gain your full trades qualification. So yeah, it's a

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Speaker 2: great way to go. You don't want a student loan

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Speaker 2: at the end, and you want to earn reasonable money

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Speaker 2: while you go. There's also what's from different than other

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Speaker 2: careers is that you know you have a good chance

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Speaker 2: of actually being promoted within that business. And also there's

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Speaker 2: an opportunity a lot a lot of those people can

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Speaker 2: become say subcontractors for example, you can own your own business,

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Speaker 2: so if you've got aspirations for business ownership. They've done

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Speaker 2: some research and study as well, and I think what

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Speaker 2: they found is that in terms of tradees, they're starting

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Speaker 2: to say now that I guess if you look at

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Speaker 2: the career as a whole, if you're wise and that's

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Speaker 2: sort of first ten years, and make some good investments

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Speaker 2: in that sort of twenty year mark, you can actually

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Speaker 2: be the same hold the same wealth as someone to say,

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Speaker 2: a degree holder. So that's a non tack now