B.C. government expanding skills training programs through new complex in Burnaby

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is spending more than $136 million to build a new trades and technology training complex in Burnaby.

It says the complex at the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s campus will help more than 12,000 full- and part-time students a year in 20 trades and technology programs.

The government’s latest labour market outlook showed eight out of every 10 new openings in the next decade will require post-secondary education or skills training.

The outlook also forecasts more than one million job openings in the next 10 years.