Doing their part — Vocational schools’ teachers, students use skills, equipment, supplies to help in fight against COVID-19 (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Apr 3, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared in ROI-NJ. New Jersey’s county technical-vocational schools are contributing to the effort to ensure those on the front lines battling COVID-19 have the protective equipment they need. Vocational schools in nearly every...

Morris County partnership lets high school students experience vast array of health care careers (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Mar 20, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared March 6, 2020 on ROI-NJ. By middle school, Ferouz Albukhari knew she wanted a career in the medical field. As an eighth grader, she applied to the Academy for Health Care Sciences run by the Morris County Vocational School...

Accelerating education: Middlesex vo-tech student jump-starts career with Jaguar Land Rover (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 28, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared Jan. 21, 2020 on ROI-NJ. After Rafael Miranda graduated from the auto program at Middlesex County Vocational Technical School in Perth Amboy, he landed a job working at an independent repair shop. Not long after, he got a...

Local 825’s Lalevee says automation isn’t killing union jobs, it’s changing them (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 17, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement

Read this article as it originally appeared Jan. 16, 2020 on ROI-NJ. Training the Next Generation: Vo-Tech’s Evolution as Your Workforce Solution Greg Lalevee remembers the silence. Yes, he remembers the reaction he got when he would tell members of the International...

Leader of N.J. council says vo-tech schools are evolving, and cutting-edge learning environment is attracting students (ROI-NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 17, 2020 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this article as it originally appeared Jan. 16, 2020 in ROI-NJ. It’s a simple statement. “The demand for career and technical education in New Jersey has gone through the roof,” Judy Savage begins. “Enrollment in our vo-tech schools is up more than 34% since the...

Where business meets education: Key to vocational training is working with companies, officials say (ROI_NJ)

by Career Tech | Jan 17, 2020 | Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Schools

Read this story as it appeared Jan. 16, 2020 in ROI-NJ. Howard Lerner, superintendent of Bergen County Technical Schools, likes to be specific about what types of companies he is eager to work with to create programs for his students. “We never turn away a small...