engineering degree online : Technical training growing with Uncle Sam’s help
The demand from employers nationwide for all kinds of hi-tech technical skills is motiviating several states, including North Carolina (my home state) and Florida to ‘re-engineer their tech-ed programs.
(just so you know, North Carolina and Florida have been leaders in education reform and experimentation)
California, which is home to 1 out of every 9 students in the US, recently invested $100 million into new technical education programs in its 2006 budget.
And Uncle Sam is helping too.
In August, President Bush signed legislation renewing the Carl Perkins Vocational and Technical Training Act, which is giving $1.3 billion to the states over the next fiscal year for career technical education in high schools and community colleges.
Here’s what Jan Bray, executive director of the Association for Career and Technical Education is saying about this trend towards hi-tech technical training:
“High schools, community colleges, universities, parents, and employers are all beginning to realize that … to be competitive, our educational system needs more than academic theory. They are realizing there needs to be more relevance to the workplace, to what students are interested in and to what the changing economy needs.”
Ben
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