Any Accredited Technical Vocational schools in NV?
Doing a search with either the term “Technical” or “Vocational” in the search string brings up ZERO entry’s in NV (604 for "Technical" 70 returns for "Vocational" nationwide) http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/This is a disgrace! Georgia has 39 "Technical" Colleges, and I seem to recall, Toyota, Honda, KIA all have plants in Georgia ("Georgia is home to 230+ automotive-related manufacturing companies that employ nearly 52,000 workers." ) http://www.georgia.org/GeorgiaIndustries/Pages/Automotive.aspx
Coincidence??
I believe over half the states currently have a separate technical/vocational college system (I'm working on the exact number). As I have seen first-hand how the Community College system here in NV regards "Technical Training"... Its high time even in this economic down-turn we start building such a system here in NV.
Our elected representatives are still talking about (and throwing money at) having a trained technical workforce, and industry is still putting money into programs that, if ran by the academic's are doomed to fail (the one exception seems to be Great Basin College... maybe we can learn from these folks).
The only other option is a "for profit" network like University of Phoenix, ITT Technical, UTI, NTT. Unfortunately most are not accredited (units will not transfer for an advanced degree) and are terribly expensive for the students (cheaper per student when compared to state funded per student). Vouchers, public funding for private education, I really don't want to go there....
posted by cl @ 8:48 PM
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A highly trained automotive technician can earn a high income, making Automotive Training a necessity and the automotive field a popular career path.
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