by Allyson Roberts | Sep 26, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
Wayne, NJ — In a significant step forward for career and technical education, Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI) officially opened the John Currie Biotechnology Innovation Center with a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony. The state-of-the-art...
by Allyson Roberts | Sep 17, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools
Ocean County’s next generation of nurses surrounded a hospital bed at Ocean County College on Thursday and explored what will be their new classroom for the coming school year. These high school students, enrolled in a pre-nursing program at Ocean County...
by Allyson Roberts | Sep 17, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
How do you interest the next generation in global logistics? Tell them the future is theirs. That’s a prediction Jasmin Lee shared when recruiting the inaugural class of Union County Vocational-Technical Schools’ Academy for Global Logistics. Lee is principal of the...
by Allyson Roberts | Aug 21, 2024 | Schools
As superintendent of Essex County Schools of Technology (ECST) for the past nine years, James Pedersen, Ed.D., has not only worked within Essex County, but throughout the state to build partnerships that strengthen ECST’s three schools. His district provides an option...
by Allyson Roberts | Aug 6, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
Funding from Amazon, AT&T, NJM Insurance Group, PKA Technologies, PSEG, SHI International Corporation, South Jersey Industries (SJI) and VMWARE totaled $90,250 to the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) Foundation this year to distribute as scholarships to...
by Allyson Roberts | Jul 9, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Featured News, Schools, Student Achievements
New Jersey has the top high school for STEM — or science, technology, engineering and math — in the nation, according to a recent ranking from U.S. News & World Report. High Technology High School in Lincroft in Monmouth County topped the news site’s list of the...