Although skilled trades workers are in high demand across the province, the waitlist to get into NSCC remains high.

The province’s standing committee on human resources discussed the topic on Tuesday.

Don Bureaux, president of NSCC, said managing waitlists is an art and a science.

“If we double enrollment in one particular trade, and there’s not opportunities for those individuals to get a position where they can continue with their apprenticeship journey, then we are not doing anybody any favor. So it’s always that match between supply and demand,” he said.

He said  sometimes they don’t get it right.

But he said they make sure every seat at the school is full come September.