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Mid-Atlantic Steel Fabricators’ Association
October 29, 2014Dr. Christopher J. Nagy
BCIT Adult School Principal Burlington County Apprentice Coordinator
Consensus of Issues
Wall Street Journal Online (September 12, 2014) Skills Gap Bumps Up Against Vocational Taboo…Federal, State Governments Push Apprentice Programs, but Find Few Domestic Takers
USA Today (September 30, 2014) Where the jobs are: The New Blue Collar
The Economist (August 23, 2014) Got Skills? Retooling Vocational Education – Suffering of twin curses: low status and limited innovation – no more- employment of youth and unemployed need skill development – College value vs. Return on Investment and Employability – Competency based work related skills vs Mastery of a certain discipline which will need upgrade
The Economist (June 28, 2014) The Digital Degree – The Future of Universities – A digital Disruption
The Economist ( June 28, 2014) Creative Destruction – A Cost Crisis, Changing Labor Markets and New Technology Will Turn an Old Institution of Its Head
Value of On-The-Job-Training and Related Technical
Instruction – A German ModelApprenticeshipsCost of education reasonable – no debt
Able to earn college credits through local colleges
Develop employable skills
Hired by companies and able to prove self as valuable to company
Wages attractive
Customize worker to company needs and culture
Veterans benefit through GI Bill
Customized Training
Companies benefit
Employees benefit – new skill learned and paid during training
Cost of training often reduced or paid in full through grants (10 or more employees trained)
Timely, responsive and customized to company need
Build loyalty
Create opportunity to build stackable credentials for employees and companies to have employees with key credentials to meet labor requirements
Two BCIT ExamplesCreation of Course:
Entrepreneurism, Business Planning and Sustainability
Developed in response to a business community need
Teach key skills – employable and stackable knowledge and credentials
Reasonable cost
Valuable for all ages
Addresses business expansion, taxation, financing and exit with a plan
Electrical Blueprint Reading and Autocad
Developed in response to a specific business’ need
Customized training at BCIT and/or on location of business
Upgrade of skills to prepare for new technologies at plant
Great return on investment
Stackable credential
Key Considerations
The average number of students who are enrolled in a 4 year college who do not complete their degree is between 46-50% and those that do may take up to six years (Harvard Study: Education at a Glance 2010)
Enrollments at Community Colleges and Institutes of Technology and Vocational schools are on the rise (cost, time and employable skills)
US Manufacturers could not fill 281,000 positions due to skill gaps ( June 2014) – A call for apprentices and developing own workforce? (WSJ 9/12/14).
By 2017, an estimated 2.5 million new, middle-skill jobs are expected to be added to the workforce, accounting for nearly 40% of all job growth according to a USA TODAY analysis of local data from Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. and CareerBuilder (USA Today 9/30/14).
Emerson
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail.”
• Apprenticeships
• Related Technical Instruction
• Customized Training
• Stackable Credentials
Resourceswww.bcit.cc (see Adult Education, apprenticeships and customized training)
http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/forms_pdfs/bssvcs/ogo/ApprenticeshipInTraining%5B1%5D.pdf (apprenticeship training in New Jersey)
http://www.doleta.gov/oa/ ( Dept. of Labor website)
Contact Information
Dr. Christopher NagyBCIT Adult Education Principal
Burlington County Apprentice CoordinatorEnterprise Manager695 Woodlane Road
Westampton, NJ 08016Phone: (609) 267-4226 ext. 8330
Fax: (609) [email protected]
