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) 267-3752cnagy@bcit.ccwww.bcit.cc