Training Symposium held
Malcolm Gorrill
Northern News Services
Inuvik (Dec 08/00) - Plans are in the works for a Mackenzie Valley Training Committee following an Oil and Gas Training Symposium in Inuvik.
The symposium discussed strategies for training and development to ensure full employment opportunities for Northeners in the oil and gas industry.
The symposium was a huge success, according Otti de Kock, a member of the working committee for the event.
"We had employment officers from a number of communities," de Kock said. "It was a wide variety of people who are involved in oil and gas training and development in some shape or form."
She said it was good to bring together such a large number of people involved in oil and gas training.
Another member of the working committee, Miki O'Kane, agreed. The director of the Inuvik campus of Aurora College said the symposium provided a lot of information.
"The workshops gave us a good idea of what we need to do next, as educators," O'Kane said. "It was also good to have some of the political figures there as well."
Education Minister Jake Ootes was among the 65 official participants in the symposium.
