Offered by Camosun College in Victoria, Canada, Trades - Apprenticeship in Professional Cook 2: Apprenticeship - Direct Entry is a trades - apprenticeship in Culinary Arts programme. The programme runs for 6 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 700 per total for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Trades - Apprenticeship
Field:Culinary Arts
Duration: 6 weeks
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 700 / total
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This is the direct-entry, in-school technical training component of Level 2 of the Professional Cook apprenticeship, part of Camosun's Red Seal-endorsed culinary program. In-person training runs approximately six weeks, delivered at Camosun, with an alternative self-paced online E-pprentice option available for those who prefer to work around their own schedule. As with other trade apprenticeships, roughly 80 percent of an apprentice's time is spent working and earning under an employer, with the technical training portion completed separately each year. Successful completion leads to the Professional Cook 2 BC Certificate of Qualification, building on Level 1 toward the full Red Seal Professional Cook credential achieved after Level 3. This direct-entry option suits people who are continuing their cook apprenticeship without having completed a foundation program, working in settings such as restaurants, hotels, catering or institutional food service while completing their technical training.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Camosun accepts applications to its apprenticeship technical-training programmes, including Professional Cook, on a year-round basis. To apply, an applicant must already have a registered employer willing to sponsor and train them and hold a valid SkilledTradesBC registration number; either the applicant or the employer can contact SkilledTradesBC to register the apprenticeship contract. For this Direct Entry route, applicants challenge Professional Cook Levels 1, 2, and 3 through SkilledTradesBC's Practical Challenge Exams: those already holding a SkilledTradesBC letter of eligibility contact Camosun to secure an exam slot, and those without one are directed to SkilledTradesBC to verify their eligibility before challenging. The page states no secondary-school course, grade, minimum GPA, or standardized English-language test score as an admission condition; entry instead runs through employer sponsorship, SkilledTradesBC registration, and the eligibility/challenge-exam process it administers.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through EducationPlannerBC for Camosun's open-enrolment programmes: for Fall 2027 (September) applications open 1 October 2026 with an early deadline of 15 May 2027 for priority registration and a late deadline of 26 August 2027; Winter 2027 (January) runs 15 September 2026 to 7 January 2027, and Summer 2027 (May) 15 January 2027 to 29 April 2027. Limited-enrolment programmes publish only an opening date and can close once the waitlist exceeds the seats on offer. International applicants must submit a complete application by 1 June (Fall), 1 October (Winter) or 1 February (Summer), though later applications are still reviewed while seats remain, making admission effectively rolling for both groups once the early deadlines pass. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
