How do you Build a “Career in a Year”?

Philippe Jean-Bart: The Advantages of Technical Education — 

It is a fact:  everyone does not have the ability or the resources to pursue a traditional four-year college education.  According to Philippe Jean-Bart that is why technical education and training is so valuable.  Join the conversation as Ramona talks to Philippe about the value and benefits of attending technical college.  Through a technical education students can actually “build a career in a year.”  Philippe is Chair of Health Science Education at Atlantic Technical College & Technical High School.  A first-generation Haitian American, Philippe now makes Miami his home.

Resources:
Atlantic Technical College

Highlights from our conversation:

• Value of a technical education
• Employment opportunities for people with technical degrees
• Receiving technical education during high school
• Funding technical education
• Workforce development
• Affordability of higher education
• Strategies for college success