Tag: vocational training

Workforce

AGC launches push to diversify construction workforce through high school training

AGC aims to diversify the construction industry workforce by launching a national campaign to increase vocational training available to high school students.

January 18, 2019

Workforce

Construction training to be the only subject at this Chicago high school

This fall, the city of Chicago will transition one of its vocational high schools to a curriculum based solely around training students to enter the construction workforce. The move represents a return to form for Dunbar Vocational Career Academy which, prior to World War II, focused solely on the trades. According to a report from the […]

May 9, 2016

Workforce

Indiana Gov. Pence wants to “make career and vocational education a priority in every high school”

The state of Indiana spends $100 million each year on on vocational education in its high schools. However, only a few thousand of the students that take advantage of this training leave high school with approved credentials or a certificate showing they have received job training, reports the Logansport, Indiana newspaper Pharos-Tribune. And, of the the 100,000 students […]

October 31, 2013

Business

In campaign to end the skilled worker shortage, Mike Rowe unafraid of reaching into both sides of the aisle

As part of his Profoundly Disconnected campaign to make students and, really, the country in general, aware of the opportunities and good money available to those who choose a career in the trades, Mike Rowe has been making a lot of appearances lately. A little while back he appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show “Real […]

October 30, 2013

Workforce

Mike Rowe is giving high school seniors $15k vocational scholarships; first they have to sign the amazing SWEAT pledge

We’ve voiced our fondness for Mike Rowe before. He’s a firm believer that no job is a bad job and that if we want to solve the skilled worker shortage here in the U.S., we need to get younger Americans motivated for careers in the trades. But somehow we had up to this point missed […]

October 17, 2013

Business

Mike Rowe: “We no longer equate dirt with success. But we should.”

We like Mike Rowe. His Go Build series of TV spots and YouTube videos do a great job of introducing people to the construction industry and trades and how happy and successful you can be in those jobs. He’s honest and outspoken about how our country undervalues vocational training and the skills gap that’s created. […]

August 15, 2013

Workforce

Rosie’s Girls camp introduces Cincinnati teens to the construction industry

For the past six years, a summer day camp in Cincinnati has introduced dozens of teenage girls to the construction industry with hands-on training. This year’s three week course graduated 18 girls from 15 different Cincinnati communities, according to a report from ABC affiliate WCPO. Over the course of the camp, the girls took electrical, […]

August 12, 2013

Workforce

Mike Rowe: American education system undervalues vocational skills

A big advocate for improving vocational training here in the U.S., ‘Dirty Jobs’ star Mike Rowe recently delivered a keynote at the Skills USA event in Kansas City. Before delivering his address at the event, a national competition for high school and college students that puts their vocational skills to the test, Rowe sat down with TV […]

July 17, 2013