NDSCS head: N.D. job market outruns education system
February 7, 2012 at 2:56 pm in Grand Forks Herald
Richman holds meeting in Grand Forks to spark discussionMore needs to be done to help two-year colleges prepare people for the hot job market in the region, says John Richman, president of North Dakota State College of Science in Wahpeton. Continue Reading
If the job market was that “hot”, employers would be offering on-the-job training, and the students wouldn’t be carrying massive higher-education debt.
I wouldn’t be as opposed to vocational education at the “trade school” (Wahpeton) level, if the tuition wasn’t insanely high; and if the coursework wasn’t packed full of useless crap that was either covered in junior high/high school; or is just plain not needed, but included to pretend that there’s some “liberal arts” education to justify an Associate degree.
As a double-graduate (Class of ’80 and ’81) of the Wahpeton trade school, I’m very familiar with wasted time spent in pointless courses that have nothing to do with the main focus of vocational education.
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