A suggestion to Brian Sandavol
sent via: "Share your ideas" http://www.sandovaltransition.com/ideasI'm a former Community College instructor and current technical/vocational instructor for a national company. In NV we lack a "trained technical workforce". I've been here for 20 years, it's still the same complaint. Throwing money at the current educational system will not help. I've been pushing for a separate (from the Community College system) Technical College System here in NV for years. While the Technical College would still be under UCCSN, it would address the needs of technical/vocational workforce education, which the current Community College system refuses to do. I also envision this entity working with K-12 to provide age-appropriate technical/vocational material (the majority of high-school students cannot read a tape measure, how sad is that?)
More can be found on this topic by going to: "Technical Education in NV"
posted by cl @ 10:28 AM
1 Comments:
I agree with your assessment on the lack of skilled technical workforce. Being in the technical sales and service sector of our industrial economy, I couldn’t agree more. We are years behind our neighboring states, not just CA. Many plant closures over the past few years have no doubt been a result of declining sales and profits. These declining profits have shed a bright light on the high costs these companies endured to maintain their plants. Many of these costs would have been reduced with the implementation of modern, less expensive technology. Our industrial plants that are still around have adopted many of these technologies, and thus have been able to reduce costs in lieu of a decline in sales.
In industry, our state has the reputation of being a “run ‘til fail” state. There is little emphasis on migrating toward modern technologies because the lack of qualified personnel to maintain these systems. A higher skilled workforce would help attract more businesses, and more importantly keep the ones we have competitive and viable. Your suggestion on a technical school has merit, and I would be in support of such an institution.
Thanks,
Jeff
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