Trades - Apprenticeship in Retail Meat Processing: Apprenticeship is a trades - apprenticeship in Trades programme offered by Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada. The programme runs for 4 weeks, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition is CAD 539 per total for local students.
This program delivers the in-school technical-training component of the Retail Meat Processing (meat cutter) apprenticeship at Thompson Rivers University, for candidates already registered as apprentices with an employer. Training is organized into two levels: Level I, which covers sanitation, safety, refrigeration, equipment and hand tools alongside processing of beef, pork, lamb, poultry and seafood, value-added work such as bacon and ham curing, tumbled products and jerky, and basic business math; and Level II, which builds on these skills with more advanced processing techniques and customer-service topics including meat-case service, up-selling and employment search. Intakes are scheduled periodically, with Level I and Level II running as separate blocks rather than continuously. The university's apprenticeship office coordinates registration and confirms dates directly with applicants and their employers. The page does not state the number of in-school or work-based hours, tuition, or the specific credential issued on completion, though the training is positioned within the province's recognized meat-cutter apprenticeship pathway. It suits people already employed in a meat-processing trade position and registered as an apprentice who need to complete the classroom and shop portions of their technical training between periods of on-the-job work.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Neither the program's culinary apprenticeship page nor a Jina Reader re-fetch of it publishes any admission or entrance requirements; the page lists only Level I and Level II course content and program contacts ([email protected], [email protected]). 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.
