Schools And Colleges Need A Response To Big Expansion Of Health Jobs
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Pharmacy, nursing and a host of medical therapies offer respected, well-paid careers with thousands of projected vacancies as today’s practitioners retire along with their fellow aging baby-boomers.
Delaware job growth in these fields has been a healthy 19 percent over the past five years. There are already 42,000 health care workers here, and the two crossing [...]
Is Technical Education Being Overlooked
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Educators at the Cabell County Career Technology Center claim their technical programs can and do provide high school students with training in industries that offer jobs with good pay.
But in most cases, getting to the level of that “good pay” will require that they attend some sort of post-secondary education, whether it be an apprenticeship, [...]
New Iti Curriculum To Link Education With Jobs
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The Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) will no longer impart routine educational degrees, which have become occupationally irrelevant in the industry. The industry demand will now decide the curriculum, as the ITIs will impart those skills to their students, which are required by the industry. It will make job availability easier for the students after they [...]
New Allied Health Education Center Ribbon Cutting Opening Set For Today
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The ribbon cutting opening for LSU at Alexandria’s new Allied Health Education Center, 807 Jackson St., will begin at 11 a.m. today, announced Dr. Tom Armstrong, interim chancellor and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, in a news release.
The public is invited, and refreshments will be served. The open house will continue until 1 [...]
Health, education, political leader create Network for Better Futures
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The NetWork for Better Futures is a common sense approach to organizing and delivering comprehensive resources needed to help men who have been in trouble with the law re-enter the community as workers, fathers and positive forces in society. According to CEO Steve Thomas, “We intend to demonstrate a smart, cost effective way to address [...]
Instituto Nacional And Liceo De Aplicacion On Strike Against General Education Law
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While the former of the educational institutions is currently on strike, the second has begun a protest. The Liceo Confederación Suiza is expected to join later today.
All classes at the Instituto Nacional and Liceo de Aplicación have been cancelled this morning after both educational establishments began demonstrations to protest against the possible passing of the [...]
Fight Against Hepatitis B Also A Battle Against Fear
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Imagine if you will a potentially life-threatening disease that afflicts a minority group unwilling to call for help because it may unleash a public backlash. The consequence is easy to predict: a silent epidemic that places the community at greater risk.
I’m not talking about HIV/AIDS, a disease Australians intelligently and courageously addressed a generation ago [...]
Kentucky Homeplace Honored
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The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) has presented Kentucky Homeplace, University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health, with its 2008 Outstanding Program Award.
The initiative has linked more than 74,000 rural Kentucky residents with medical, social and environmental services, provided more than 1.5 million services and accessed nearly $106 million worth of medications and [...]
Fewer High School Students Smoking Cigarettes And Marijuana
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Fewer high school students were smoking cigarettes and marijuana in 2007 than in 2001, with one in four smoking pot and one in five puffing on cigarettes, a youth survey released Wednesday shows.
Teens’ use of tobacco in their lifetime fell to 46 percent from 62 percent and marijuana use dropped to 41 percent, down from [...]
United Way Has New Goals For Education
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The president of the United Way of America announced plans this week to steer money over the next 10 years toward programs related to education, income and health care.
That’s already being done at the United Way of Central Oklahoma, the local organization’s president said Friday from Washington, where he was meeting with elected officials from [...]
