High school students interested in arts and design might want to think about applying for this. Applications are now being accepted for the Warner Bros. Animation/Hanna-Barbera Scholarship. This is an annual award given to a graduating high school senior enrolling in a college, university or trade school to study animation. This is the second year [...]

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On December 19th, various groups gathered in Ivy tech Community College in Gary, Indiana, to honor new graduates of apprenticeship and training programs coordinated under the Indiana Plan. The Indiana Plan provides minorities, women and dislocated workers with the training they will require to get qualified for skilled trades in that state.

63 people were [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Trade School World, from the Trade UP! We are off doing family stuff and will return in a few days’ time.

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has settled a lawsuit against the United Auto Workers (UAW), the Ford Motor Company and two related companies. Ford and its co-defendants will pay $1.6 million in the settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit over a written test that determined the eligibility for a skilled trades apprenticeship program. [...]

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Canada’s leading job board for skilled tradespeople, skilledworkers.com, has teamed with the Gulf Recover Effort project of Habitat for Humanity, allowing H4H unlimited job postings and limitless database access in its recruitment efforts. This effort will allow Habitat for Humanity to find the skilled individuals it needs to help build homes for the many who [...]

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You can get your Rosie the Riveter calendar “Strength, Grace, Courage” for $25, online at wa.womenintrades.com. Other locations can be found on the Web site. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar go to Washington Women in Trades, a volunteer organization begun in 1978 to support women working in non-traditional jobs.

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CDI College in Canada announced that it has changed names to Everest College of Business, Technology and Health Care. CDI/ Everest is part of Corinthian Colleges which has suffered some controversy as noted elsewhere in this blog. And in fact, if you Google CDI College, page one of results turns up several blogs and a [...]

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There’s a creepy story being carried by CNN and many other major news sources about Timothy Krajcir, who has pleaded guilty to first degree in the 1982 slaying of an Illinois coed, Deborah Sheppard. He has since been charged with five other murders, after confessing to having committed those also. Police confess to having been [...]

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Another story about a county that is worried about its inability to fill skilled trades jobs can be found in yesterday’s edition of the News Democrat, in Belleville, Illinois. Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/ntm/story/198992.html
Meanwhile just across the border in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, leaders are warning that low unemployment numbers are part of a [...]

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Louisiana musician Benny Grunch has written a fight song for GED seekers everywhere. Some of the lyrics apply to defiant trade-schoolers whose relatives want them to attend university. The lyrics, (courtesy of bennygrunch.com) go like this:
My brudda’ in law went to college n’all. He’s a certified PhD.
He acts like a snob, but he can’t [...]

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