Surging interest in community college vocational programs drove up spring enrollment in higher education for the second straight semester, but a report shows headcount remained short of pre-pandemic ...

High school students in Rhode Island will soon be hard at work on a novel project: developing their own food truck businesses. Starting in the fall, students in 13 Ocean State districts will develop ...

Career and technical education programs today are less often the traditional, vocational programs of decades past that enrolled students who weren’t on the college track. Today’s programs emphasize ...

Earning a four-year degree is one path toward a rewarding career. However, that path is not the only one available. Enrolling in a vocational program can provide students with the skills necessary to ...

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In a lab at Dunwoody College of Technology, Lisa Peck carefully drills into a piece of metal. In another building, Jarvis ...

While her three children were growing up, Asfa Alamelhuda gave them everything. “I stayed home with them. I would take the kids to school, to the library, to the park,” said Alamelhuda, 51, whose ...

When Chef Samantha Jones arrived at Juarez High School in Chicago six years ago, she discovered a shell of a culinary program. Jones set about to change that: She created a curriculum, arranged ...

Joanne Scott had been without full-time work for about two decades and was struggling to reenter the workforce. Then she learned this year about a short-term pharmacy technician program at Mt. San ...

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