Technical Education

After months of online instruction, career-tech students in Guilford County Schools are hoping to return to the in-person classes and tools they need to develop skills and receive industry certifications.

Eighteen months after Massachusetts announced a three-year grant program for high schools across the state to develop "Innovation Pathway" career-readiness programs, a total of 49 schools have done so.

Lowe’s and the University of North Carolina, Charlotte have announced the donation will create a new faculty position at the school’s College of Computing and Infomatics, for researching AI and machine learning.

The university has opened its new 320,000-square-foot facility for the spring semester, intended to enhance STEM programming and help the state meet growing workforce demands for math and science professionals.

For technical schools like Minuteman Regional High School in Lexington, Mass., adapting to remote learning has been a challenge that required setting aside funding, supplies and shipments for at-home shop lessons.

The University of Texas at Dallas and the city of Richardson are in the process of turning about 1,200 acres in one of the city’s oldest business areas into an "innovation quarter" with five new technology research centers.

The new funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission will go toward workforce training equipment at the center, which aims to develop employees in autonomous technology, cybersecurity, clean energy and other areas.

Three years after the school board endorsed more focus on science, technology, engineering and math education at Royalton-Hartland Central School District in New York, students and teachers are seeing benefits.

Mechatronics, an interdisciplinary field combining robotics with electrical and mechanical engineering, is an in-demand field for engineers and a burgeoning program at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga.

With IT professionals in growing demand, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill last week requiring all the state’s elementary, middle and high schools to teach computer science by the 2024-25 academic year.

Three years after launching a cybersecurity degree program, South Carolina’s Benedict College has signed a deal to guarantee successful undergrads a spot in ECPI University’s online masters program for cybersecurity.

A new wing of Milton High School in Wisconsin, paid for by a voter-approved proposal in 2019, is dedicated to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses and will give students space to return safely.

Robot makers in Philadelphia say their biggest challenge is a shortage of skilled labor, and students who finish trade school, an apprenticeship or a two-year program can qualify for jobs starting at $62,000 a year.

Two amendments being considered by the North Dakota Legislature would give money to research and career and technical education programs in the state, as well as money for UND's space command initiative.

Cleveland Community College broke ground this week on its Advanced Technology Center, a $15 million facility for science programs, a computer lab and office space for the Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership.

Under an Indiana House budget proposal approved in February, several career courses such as radio/TV, cosmetology, culinary arts, nutrition science, energy industry and fashion would lose funding.

Career training courses that typically involve hands-on experience in professional environments have had to adapt with masks, distancing, virtual instruction and other COVID-related precautions.

In a guest column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tavarez Holston, president of the Clarkston-based Georgia Piedmont Technical College, offers his view on how technical colleges can help the U.S. economy recover.