Camosun College offers Trades - Apprenticeship in Professional Cook 3: Apprenticeship - Direct Entry, a trades - apprenticeship in Culinary Arts programme in Victoria, Canada. 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
Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This is the direct-entry, in-school technical training component of Level 3 of the Professional Cook apprenticeship, the final level leading to Red Seal certification, 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 of Level 3 leads to the interprovincial Red Seal Professional Cook credential, recognized across Canada. This direct-entry option suits people who are completing the final stage of their cook apprenticeship without having gone through a foundation program, working in settings such as restaurants, hotels, catering or institutional food service while completing their technical training.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Professional Cook 3 at Camosun is a SkilledTradesBC sponsored apprenticeship rather than a standard institutional application, and the programme page states no separate academic grade, English-language, or portfolio requirement of its own. To apply, an applicant needs a registered employer who will sponsor and train them and a valid SkilledTradesBC registration number; the apprentice must be sponsored by an employer who is itself registered with SkilledTradesBC, and either party can contact SkilledTradesBC to complete the apprenticeship registration. Progression to Level 3 in practice follows completion of the earlier SkilledTradesBC Cook levels, but the page does not restate that as a formal admission line. Applicants with questions about a specific intake are directed to the Trades Apprenticeship Office at 250-370-3856 or [email protected] rather than to a published checklist.
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.
