[VIDEO] Rep. Langevin, Employers Talk Job Training At New England Tech
All agree one area in need of improvement is getting students to think earlier about what their college tuition dollars will buy them.
Representative James Langevin was in town Monday afternoon, paying a call on New England Tech to discuss the ways in which businesses and schools are collaborating to get people trained to fill available jobs. Again and again, it came down to the fact that not enough students are following the career paths that will end in jobs right now. “There are a lot of companies looking for the same talent,” said Pat Blakemore, NEIT’s director of career services. “There are not enough young people going into these career trends. I don’t think enough is happening at the high school level.” Donald Nokes, president of Warwick-based IT services company NetCenergy, agreed. “There’s a lot more that can be done on the high school level in my opinion. I’m …
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Jill Stange
9:30 am on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I hope the “higher-education pendulum” does not swing too far. First we teach to the test in primary school, and now we educate to the job in college. Students need to be prepared for today’s workforce demands. However, an institution of higher education is a place where students learn to think outside the box, analyze and solve problems, create something new, write clearly, argue coherently and … more ›