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Iowa School Creates Apprenticeship ‘Playbook’

A student who’ll be a senior at Pella High School this fall is already on the payroll at Vermeer Manufacturing. Charles Vander Velden is the first student to enter a new apprenticeship program for welders that’s a partnership of the school, Vermeer and Des Moines Area Community College. Vander Velden started his apprenticeship in welding […]

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Prison Reform: Using Education to Create Path Forward

Whether prison is for punishment or rehabilitation often drives the discussion about access to education in jail. Proponents say college classes for people in prison significantly increase their chances of finding steady work after release and lessen the risk of reoffending. A 2013 study found that those enrolled in educational programs are 43 percent less likely to […]

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College, Hospital Team Up on Surgical Technology Program

East Mississippi Community College and Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden triangle have come together to offer a new program previously unavailable in the Golden Triangle. The institutions announced a surgical technology program Wednesday. The program will begin in August, pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, which meets in June. The […]

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N.M. Looks to Community Colleges to Train Workers for Oil Boom

Industrial workforce needs are becoming a main focus of southeast New Mexican community colleges, as a recent spike in regional extraction developments caused an influx of workers in need of training. John Gratton, president of New Mexico State University Carlsbad spoke before the Legislative Finance Committee during a Wednesday meeting at NMSU-C that his school […]

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Ex-Prisoners Making the Most of Second Chance

On the machining floor of EDAC Technologies in Newington, Peter Gould, 54, operates a computer-numeric controlled vertical turning lathe. The company primarily manufactures aerospace parts, and Gould is programming his machine to shape a rotor that will be used in an airplane turbo-fan engine. Halfway across the state at Kocheck Co. LLC in Putnam, Matt […]

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House Bill Aims to Train Low-Income Parents for In-Demand Jobs

With jobs across the country going unfilled due, in part, to a lack of skilled workers, U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, D-Springfield, introduced legislation this week to help low-income parents overcome employment barriers and train for in-demand jobs. The bill, which Neal, the top Democrat on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, filed in the House on Monday, […]

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Study: Do Apprenticeships, Colleges Have a Future Together?

Most of today’s college students view having suc­cess in the workplace, earning a decent salary, and having a fulfilling career as key reasons for pursu­ing higher education. This sentiment is echoed by gov­ernors, state legislators, and higher education leaders who are looking at the labor market success of gradu­ates to evaluate how well postsecondary institutions […]

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Why Some Companies are Relaxing Degree Standards

At many companies, having a college degree is simply the price of admission for landing a job. A Bureau of Labor Statistics report released in June 2017 found that occupations that typically require some type of post-secondary education made up nearly 37% of employment in May 2016. The most common requirement was a bachelor’s degree. […]

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Programs Put Students on Track for High-Demand Jobs

Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York (BMCC/CUNY) has entered two innovative partnerships that level the playing field for underserved students looking to enter certain high-demand job sectors. BMCC’s Center for Continuing Education and Workforce Development has partnered with Comprehensive Development, Inc. (CDI), a network of alternative high schools, and Northwell […]

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Colleges Team Up with Resort on Culinary Program

Southern Maine Community College and Central Maine Community College are teaming up with Sunday River Resort in Newry on a new culinary apprenticeship program that will provide the resort with skilled workers for its restaurants and food outlets. According to a written statement from SMCC in South Portland, the agreement provides for up to 15 […]

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Nursing Schools Reject Thousands Despite Shortages

There’s an acute nursing shortage in the United States, but schools are turning away thousands of qualified applicants as they struggle to expand class size and hire more teachers for nursing programs. In America, experienced nurses are retiring at a rapid clip, and there aren’t enough nursing graduates to replenish the workforce. At the same […]

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Leaders See Promise in Career and Technical Education

Matthew B. Crawford couldn’t land a job in 1989 after getting a degree in physics from a California university, so he tried something different. He’d done electrical work over the summers through high school and college, and with his savings nearly gone, he began roaming parking lots of home improvement stores, putting flyers on windshields […]

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