Today ITVET students got the opportunity to showcase what they have learned after 1 year of training. The ITVET Open Day was held on the school compound - which was transformed, with spa and skin treatment therapy even hotel accommodations available among many other services and displays. Today we spoke with the Acting Assistant Manager, Dean Tillett and he told us how important this day is for these students.
Dean Tillett, Acting Assistant Manager, ITVET
"One of the key objective is for employers to come in and well the public in general to come and see actually what the students are capable of doing. This is their day, this is the time that we put them out there. We invite people from industries to come in, people from the various ministries to come in and actually see and get a personal experience of all the skills area that the students would have acquired over the past year."
Courtney Weatherburne
"Hopefully employ some of them maybe so as to have a future with a business or an industry right?"
Dean Tillett, Acting Assistant Manager, ITVET
"Well that is our key, and this is just before they would go in job training. In a next couple of week they will be heading out for job training. so this is a good time for them to kind of show to the general public and as you mentioned specifically to industries to convince them 'hey I'm a potential employee, I'm at ITVET, I was trained at ITVET. I'm skilled in this certain area, wouldn't you have interest in hiring me?' so that's one of the key thing about open day, it gives them that opportunity to sell themselves to the public. We have like 7 co-programs and as you mentioned some, we have the cosmetology department, the tourism department which is the hospitality services area, and also the tourism front desk. and we have actually a restaurant, this year the restaurant it think is named the 'Hibiscus' and they'll be serving lunch at 12 mid-day, throughout the rest of the evening. And then we have of course the tourism front office which have a 4 star hotel that is set and display all done by the students. And as I mentioned I'd like to say thanks to, I think it was Dave's Furniture World that assisted us with some of the furniture's for the display. We have the automotive program, the air conditioning and refrigeration, the electrical, and the construction trades. Also for the first time we've teamed up with the campus from UB engineering. so we've teamed up with UB also this year and they also have a display here with us because there's a special program here that we're running that should see students amalgamate, kind of seamlessly into the UB programs here in the engineering department."
Jennifer Pacheco, Student - Tourism
"Throughout the year we have theory, practical.... Today we can actually live up what we are thought right here at ITVET every day. We have learned not only about the careers but also about how to carry yourself which is a very important thing in the tourism industry. And here is a great experience because we can actually put everything in practise. What we have learned, the theory and the practical and it's the live thing. So it has been a very good experience and it exposed us more to what the tourism industry is all about. Here we have like a mini hotel where we have the front desk. We have everything that you would find at a hotel although all hotels are different, but we have the basics right now. We have rooms, the bathroom, and all the facilities that can be found so it's a mini hotel where we can do the practical."
Students were also able to apply for partial tuition waivers for the 2015 - 2016 school year.
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