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The Certificate – An “Often Underutilized Strategy”

As we have mentioned in quite a few segments recently, the HigherEdUtah2020 plan states that by the year 2018, 66% of jobs in Utah will require some sort of “post-secondary education.” If you’re left blank in the face by the term “post-secondary,” have no worries, you are definitely not the only one! Saying that you will need “post-secondary” education doesn’t simply mean putting your life on hold to go to or finish a multi-year degree. It also includes “The Certificate.” I thought that I would share with you an article from the Inside Higher Ed news blog entitled “The Certificate Solution” to shed a little more light on certification prgrams.

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CTE: Making the Difference

Opportunities for economic recovery are forecasted for the coming years.  New and replacement jobs are expected to surface and crops of high-wage positions are predicted to open up.  Hope may be on the horizon.  But are we ready?  Education and economic stakeholders predict that we are not. CTE is part of the answer.  CTE is making the difference by providing...

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Jan Bray Interview on the Today Show for CTE

Sept 28 - The Today Show interviewed Jan Bray about CTE and how it is currently impacting school reform.  Jan describes in her interview that with the changing needs of our current economy, there is a critical need for CTE to educate and train the future workforce of America. You can watch the entire video below. Read More »

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Global Competitiveness

Career technical education (CTE) and community colleges are grappling with the same issues brought by global competitiveness and the economy, said Frank Chong, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Colleges at the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). But those issues may have also fostered an opportunity for CTE to demonstrate why it can be the “lynchpin in economic recovery,”...

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