COTR receives grant for international internships and vocational training

June 02 2010
Posted by: sarchibald

By GERRY WARNER
gerry@dailytownsman.com

More College of the Rockies (COTR) students will be going to Africa and South America to intern in the future thanks to a $1.23 million federal grant announced at the college Thursday by MP Jim Abbott.

Some $630,000 from the Canadian International Development Agency will be used to send 42 students abroad over the next three years on private sector development to support sustainable tourism and health education in Ecuador, Peru, Kenya and Tanzania.

Another $600,000 will be used under a framework agreement with the Association of Canadian Community Colleges to provide quality vocational training and skills development for workers in the tourism and mining industries in Tanzania.

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