As posted on FosterEDU blog The current labor market “skills gap” translates into more than 4 million jobs annually going unfilled, and stems from an imperfect match of supply and demand for critical talent in growing sectors of the economy. Skills shortages are common to most periods of economic transition and resurgence over the past 100 […]
The Guide to Job Availability by Industry
As posted on FosterEDU blog The economy is continuing its slow recovery from the 2008 collapse as the average industry has increased its workforce by just over 1 percent since 2002. Though overall job growth has been sluggish, it doesn’t mean job growth isn’t occuring — it’s just not evenly distributed. Some job sectors, like healthcare […]
How Workforce Training Gives Learners a Competitive Edge
As posted on FosterEDU blog After donning the cap and gown, what comes next for high school graduates? Completing high school is a major milestone for students, but a high school diploma is no longer the academic finish line. For today’s competitive job market, a high school diploma is merely a prerequisite for the next […]
Academic & Professional Advancement: 4 Pros of Career College Opportunities
As posted on FosterEDU blog Year after year contentious dialogue continues to circulate around a four-year college education, insomuch it’s practically become trite to hear about. High tuition rates, swollen student loan debt and languishing employment opportunities for college grads perpetuate the skepticism over a college education that concerns academia, American households, and our youth. […]
Why High School Graduation is The Key to Improving At-risk Communities: PART I
Posted on The Edvocate A guest post by Frank Britt, CEO of Penn Foster Education is the catalyst for bottom-up change and can become the epicenter of transformation for communities. With a high school diploma, at-risk youth can be armed with academic pedigree, are far more attractive professionals and have better social and civic skills. […]
Why Trade Schools Are Becoming a More Viable Choice for Students
Posted in RWM.org By Kenya McCullum For many years, trade schools — also called career schools, vocational schools, or technical schools — have been considered a last resort for some students who couldn’t make the grade for admission into a four-year college or university. And that’s a notion that Frank Britt, the CEO of Penn […]
Why High School Graduation is the Key to Improving At-Risk Communities
As posted on FosterEDU blog A Case for Action Through education, at-risk youth can be transformed into high school graduates armed with academic and professional capabilities and better social and civic skills. Education is the catalyst for bottom-up change and can become the epicenter in successful communities. The high school diploma serves as the most […]
Igniting an Education Movement for Troubled Teens
As posted on the FosterEDU blog Helping At-risk Youth-Adults Increase Opportunities, Personal Growth and Lifetime Earnings Through Education The consequences of America’s high school dropout epidemic impacts lives beyond the individual. It causes a ripple effect that permeates across the communities. Every 29 seconds, another student gives up on school, resulting in more than 1 […]
Bridging the Skills Gap
Bloomberg News: Frank Britt, Penn Foster CEO on Bridging the Skills Gap Penn Foster CEO, Frank Britt, appeared on Bloomberg TV’s Street Smart with Trish Regan to talk about the U.S. Department of Labors’ May 2014 Jobs Report. While the unemployment rate is holding steady at 6.3%, and over 200k new jobs were created, the real […]
Opportunity Detroit: Reflecting on the Area, Our Partnership, Our Students and an Even Stronger Future
As posted on FosterEDU blog Travel is a major part of my life, and spending 36 hours in any given city is not uncommon. As I sit on my flight home from Detroit, Michigan, reflecting on the events that have occurred over the last day and a half, I am moved by the whole experience […]
