Tabetha Moore was a year away from earning her associate’s degree in human resources when a local manufacturing company gave her a full-time job in her field and agreed to pay for her last two semesters of school. The 21-year-old hasn’t yet negotiated the salary she’ll earn after obtaining her diploma from Fox Valley Technical … Continue reading
Quebec / The Summit on Higher Education: The losers are youth holders of vocational and technical degrees
Participants at a dialogue stressed the need for promotion of Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) to secure the future of youth and enable Pakistan to take advantage of its growing youth population. This was the crux of a day-long session entitled ‘Dialogue on Skill Development’ political priority for developing the future generation, jointly organized … Continue reading
Stakeholders in technical education have challenged the syllabus used in technical colleges, saying it doesn’t make graduates create jobs, but makes them job seekers. They raised their voices here recently when speaking at a forum geared to forge links between technical and vocational education on one hand and on the other, training institutions and industry. … Continue reading
Career and technical education has come a long way since the days when students could be steered from academics into hairstyling, auto repairs or carpentry. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to sell the concept of having all students take courses in CTE, as it is known. Take what happened this March in La Jolla, … Continue reading