by Allyson Roberts | Mar 24, 2025 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools
Students and staff at Camden County Technical School in Pennsauken, aka “Penn Tech,” celebrated the grand opening of the new culinary and baking wing at their campus last month. The school’s $7.6 million expansion was funded through the Securing Our Children’s Future...
by Allyson Roberts | Jan 28, 2025 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
Recognizing that New Jersey’s county vocational-technical school districts did not have the physical capacity to meet the strong demand for career and technical education, the New Jersey Legislature introduced, and the voters approved, the Securing Our Children’s...
by Allyson Roberts | Dec 4, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
As the “medicine chest of the world,” New Jersey has a rich life sciences community with pharmaceutical, research, medical technology and other industries all finding homes in the state. “They are here for the skilled workforce,” Chrissy Buteas, president and chief...
by Allyson Roberts | Nov 4, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
New Program Trains Students in Manufacturing Technologies Hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs exist in New Jersey, but according to the New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program (NJMEP), the average manufacturing employee is 47 years or older. To drive that...
by Allyson Roberts | Oct 8, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
Camden County has a new reason to celebrate as the Technical School located in Gloucester Township, N.J., celebrated the grand opening of a new Manufacturing and Engineering Technology (MET) career program. On Oct. 1 2024, more than 100 school officials,...