Trades - Apprenticeship in Construction Electrician: Apprenticeship is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme offered by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada. The programme runs for 10 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 1,400 per total for local students.
At a glance
Degree:Trades - Apprenticeship
Field:Trades
Duration: 10 weeks
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 1,400 / total
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
This program delivers the technical training component of the Construction Electrician apprenticeship at Thompson Rivers University for registered apprentices. Training is organized into four harmonized levels completed over four years, with ten weeks of in-school instruction delivered each year; the program is offered mainly at the Kamloops campus, with select levels also available in Williams Lake. Between technical training blocks, apprentices complete on-the-job work experience with their sponsoring employer and must demonstrate competency in core workplace standards, tracked through a logbook reviewed by certified assessors. Participation requires an apprenticeship registered with SkilledTradesBC; sessions run across the year with availability varying by level and intake. Completion of all four levels together with the required work-based hours leads toward Red Seal certification in the construction electrical trade. The program suits individuals already employed as apprentice electricians who need to complete the classroom and shop-based technical training required at each stage of their apprenticeship, rather than those looking for an initial introduction to the trade.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: The program's own page publishes no dedicated admission-requirements section for the apprenticeship stream: it states only that this training "is offered to indentured industrial electrical apprentices" attending 10 weeks of technical training per year over a four-year period, which presumes the applicant is already indentured with an employer and registered with SkilledTradesBC. Thompson Rivers University's general undergraduate admission basis therefore applies: graduation from a recognised high-school curriculum, 12 or more transferable post-secondary credits, or mature-student status (19 or older, out of formal education for two years). International applicants must also meet Thompson Rivers University's own language bar for direct entry into an undergraduate certificate or diploma program: IELTS Academic 6.5 with no band below 6.0, or TOEFL iBT 88 with no section below 20, per TRU's English requirements page.
Application Details
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants (Canadian citizens and permanent residents) apply directly to TRU: for the September (Fall) intake the deadline is 1 May, for January (Winter) it is 1 September, and for the May (Summer) intake it is 1 January; applications for most programs open 1 October, and a deadline falling on a weekend or statutory holiday moves to the next working day. International applicants follow the same intake structure with deadlines of 1 May (September), 1 October (January) and 1 February (May); TRU still reviews later applications where space remains, though high-volume programs can close early, so admission runs on a rolling basis around these published cut-offs for the 2027 entry cycle. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
