Vocational School Enrollment Booms Amid White-Collar Bust
CNBC News Many of America's 17-plus million jobless are going back to school to learn new skills and improve their chances of rejoining the workforce when the economy rebounds.
Plumbing or auto repair can’t be outsourced, goes the thinking. With household finances in disarray, accountants are assured of work for years to come.
Even jobseekers need stylists to keep up appearances. Bartenders are in demand, good times or bad. Ditto for computer programmers, heavy equipment operators, culinary staffs, carpenters and health care workers. A standard, four-year college degree simply isn’t required.
“A large subset of our population should not go to college, “ said Richard K. Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and professor of economics at Ohio University.
School-directory.net, an online guide to vocational programs, states, “Vocational training, once considered a line of career building for the academically and economically less privileged, has metamorphosed into a high level of technical education, with specialized branches like robotics, computer networking, environmental technology and the like.”
"People now have a much higher view of vocational schools, which have taken on a much more qualitative tone,” he said. If that perception isn't shared by everyone yet, it will be. The change in perception is being shaped by the role these schools play in providing quality people to the workforce." Continue reading here http://www.cnbc.com/id/34256312
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