Filling the Skills Gap: Massachusetts Vocational-Technical Schools and Business Partnerships

Steadily, by economic necessity, a change is taking place in our society. The belief that a young person must obtain a college degree in something (anything!) is giving ground to the necessity for a person to acquire skills. The recognition of the value of a career vocational technical education is on the rise. Society is recognizing that in today’s economy, many graduates of four-year liberal arts colleges are looking for work, while students from career vocational technical schools are finding high-skill, high wage jobs. Why? Because they have marketable, industry-sanctioned competencies and employability skills.

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