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Apprenticeships

What is an Apprenticeship?

An Apprenticeship is a practical, hands on training program where you are paid while you learn. As an apprentice you are contracted to an employer to learn all about your chosen trade and become qualified in that trade. The apprenticeship is a combination of on-the-job practical training and off-the-job structured training at a Registered Training Organisation, such as MPA Skills.

The term of a Plumbing and Gasfitting apprenticeship is four years and a Painting and Decorating apprenticeship is 4 years. This includes off-the-job training. In Western Australia apprenticeships are delivered under a competency based flexible training system. Workplace and off-the-job training and assessment procedures have been introduced based on the skills the apprentice should acquire over the term of the apprenticeship.

MPA Skills is considered by many to be the best industry apprenticeship program and also offers professional recruitment of apprentices to employers for short and long term period through its Group Training Organisation.

We are currently offering Plumbing Apprenticeship training at our Maylands Campus for stages 1 to 6, Jandakot Campus for stages 1 to 5.  Students who train at the Maylands campus may at times go to our Bayswater workshop for practical tasks.

The Painting Apprenticeship is only offered at our Maylands Campus.

Looking to the future

On completion of an apprenticeship, a tradesperson can start developing their experience. Their long-term goals may include:

  • To set up his/her own business
  • Become a supervisor or estimator
  • Enter the sales and marketing or product development fields

  2019 Plumbing Training Fees             2019 Painting Training Fees

Click on the links below for more information including:

Further Apprenticeship Information

 

 

 

MPA Skills Course Fees for government subsidised training – Apprenticeships and Pre-Apprenticeships 
The indicative qualification fees include projected CPI adjustments

**Please note, the below figures only show the Course Fee amount. Training Fees are made up of a Course & Resource Fee. To view the total fees payable for training please go to the  Apprenticeship section of this website where it will break down the exact amount payable.

 

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For more information please email apprentice@labourforce.mpaskills.com.au or phone 9471 6660

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