A pair of grant programs has been
announced by President Obama that aims at bringing academic institution and
businesses closer. The program announced on Wednesday will help prepare
Americans for jobs that may otherwise go unfilled.
After a review of the federal jobs
programs by Vice president Biden the need for these programs was felt and $600
million budget already in federal budget was assigned to the grants program.
The vice president Biden also joined Obama to make this announcement at the
community college outside Pittsburgh.
The grant aims at an economy that
facilitates the growth of the middle class instead being just a model for top
down growth. The new job-training programs are required to keep in pace with
rapid changes reshaping technology, the economy and the education system. These
programs will help to dig out a more direct path between community colleges and
private-sector jobs majorly in the advanced manufacturing, technology
industries and health-care.
According to senior administration
officials the challenge for schools and for industry today is to establish
broadly accepted vocational training that will prepare the workforce for the
next generation of jobs in a fast-changing economy. At the Community college of
Allegheny County, Obama ensure that the programs designed by educators work and
should be replicated across the country. The programs are in best interest of
the country and the young generation as it trains them for jobs of current
times and of the future.
Such programs have been executed
in the past by even immediate predecessors of the current president but this
one is being called different by president Obama on the basis that it is “job
driven” rather than dictated by training that may not be best preparing the
workforce for the skills needed to secure jobs and a career path.
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