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 | Jan 22, 2025 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
Toshiba Nelson, supervisor of Catering Operations for Flik Hospitality Group, said she understood the benefits of partnering with a vocational high school even before securing a relationship between her employer and Essex County Schools of Technology. “As a former...
by Allyson Roberts | Dec 13, 2024 | Career and Technical Education, Career Programs, Employer Engagement, Featured News, Schools
Cooper University Health Care, based in Camden, has welcomed students from the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) program at Camden County Technical Schools (CCTS) for work-based learning opportunities. The program is unique in that students learn in a...
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,...
