Forbes Throughout most of U.S. history, American high school students were routinely taught vocational and job-ready skills along with the 3s: reading, writing and arithmetic. Indeed readers of a certain age are likely to have fond memories of huddling over wooden workbenches learning a craft such as woodwork or maybe metal work, or any one […]

|  Forbes  | Last January, President Barack Obama announced a plan to make two-year community college free for all Americans. This week, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her New College Compact, a $350 billion program to make four-year college programs tuition-free for students at public universities. Two other prominent Democratic Presidential candidates, […]

Published on Forbes During a recent forum at South Carolina’s Trident Technical College, candidate Hillary Clinton proposed a tax incentive to encourage employers to take on more apprentices. With unemployment among 18 to 34 year olds at 7.8%, and nearly 15% among young African-American adults, the need for more apprenticeships and other forms of skills […]

|  Published on Forbes  | In May 2015, automaker Volvo finalized a deal that will move most of its North American production to South Carolina, where its new plant should be operational in 2018, employing 2,000 people and rolling out some 100,000 new vehicles each year. In coming to the U.S., Volvo is following the […]

Could student loan debt cause the next sub prime mortgage crisis in the US? While some analysts think this prediction is alarmist, others believe it is spot on. Whatever your point of view, there’s no denying that, with US student loan debt reaching a record $1.2 trillion, it is a serious problem. “It’s bad. Student […]

Dante A. Disparte and Nicholas Wyman The nation is facing a grave problem that threatens the economic future of every worker, every company, and the country at large. Over 9.1 million Americans are unemployed and millions of others are underemployed. Yet, 4.8 million jobs remain unfilled because there are not enough people with the practical, […]

We all have different passions, talents, ambitions – so why are we all asked to follow the same educational path? There is a common misconception that a traditional four-year college degree is the only logical choice for intelligent, motivated people. Yet successful careers are not handed out with college diplomas; they are built through imagination, […]

By Eric Schulzke | Deseret News Nicholas Wyman’s parents pushed him to go to college, but all he wanted to do at the time was learn to cook. His dad, a college professor, was flummoxed when Wyman took a four-year apprenticeship as a chef. After several years as a chef, he went on to college […]

Published on CNBC – February 6, 2015 – Millions of young Americans, many with college degrees, are unemployed, and that does not include those who are underemployed or have given up trying to find work. Yet millions of jobs remain unfilled, and American companies complain they have trouble finding people with the practical, technical, job-ready […]