It’s predicted about 73,000 jobs will need to be filled by 2029. The demand will put major pressure on educational institutions like TRU to put…
News is getting out that Thompson Rivers University Williams Lake is offering a tuition-free welding course with room for 14 students. Read more
The City of Kamloops shares its experience in partnership with TRU, to host four students for a six-week practicum placement as part of the Education…
There’s plenty of residential construction demand in Kamloops, and with that is demand for TRU trades graduates. Watch the video
After 30 years as Thompson Rivers University’s welding instructor in Williams Lake, Bruce Jenkins is calling it a career. And fittingly, he's handing the torch…
TRU’s Limitless fundraising campaign has now exceeded $48 million, despite a year of hardship for many. Generous donor support has brought the campaign to the…
An Adams Lake Indian Band member and graduate of Thompson Rivers University’s Water and Wastewater Technology program has developed a new app with the goal…
TRU Dean of Trades and Technology Baldev Pooni joined NL Morning News to talk about the state of the trades industry and how it is…
The Windsor Plywood Foundation has donated $75,000 to TRU’s carpentry program, thanks to a request from the Kamloops store owners, one of whom is an…
KAMLOOPS—A $75,000 donation from the Windsor Plywood Foundation has supplied Thompson Rivers University’s carpentry program with new, state-of-the-art equipment. Local Windsor Plywood Kamloops owners Bryan…
TRU was flooded with several hundred students Friday, March 6, trying out trades, and putting skills to the test in a competition. Read more
Grade 7 students from Columneetza Secondary School in Williams Lake took some tools for test drives at the annual Youth Discovers Trades event held at…
TRU Dean of Trades and Technology Baldev Pooni talked to Radio NL about the almost $2 million received for Indigenous student training in trades. Read…
News about funding to boost Indigenous trades programs was highlighted by Academica. Read more
New funding announced this week means Thompson Rivers University (TRU) will be offering trades training to Indigenous students closer to their homes and with needed…
News that TRU is starting a new Trades Assistant Program in February was picked up by several media outlets, including Academica Top Ten. The program…
TRU's recently opened Industrial Training and Technology Centre is featured on the cover and inside BC Focus magazine. It highlights what the university has…
Peter Poeschek started his career at what was then Cariboo College in 1989 as an electrical instructor. He’s been an integral component in the institution’s…
TRU trades put a group of girls, ages 12 to 15, to work building a daycare playhouse, teaching them how to use tools, read blueprints…
Youth from the Kamloops area and throughout British Columbia graduated from a week-long welding camp at TRU today, designed to provide introductory skills and plant…
