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Why Career Colleges and Schools Are Essential
While the 2020 pandemic has forced the doors of educational institutions to close temporarily, many career colleges and schools continue to honor their mission by staying in touch with students, offering online courses, and investigating every opportunity to help students. Using all communication tools available including their school information system, schools have actively maintained contact […]
Supporting IT Career Schools with STARS
Postsecondary colleges and career schools that teach topics in information technology offer programs in a variety of specialized areas. Among the most popular are (1) Information Technology and Information Systems; (2) Computer Science; (3) Information Science; (4) Computer Animation; (5) Software Engineering; (6) Computer Engineering; and (7) Cybersecurity. Students can opt for certifications or degrees […]
STARS Management Features for Welding Schools
Welding is not a new profession. In fact, it’s a skill that emerged thousands of years ago when ancient Sumerians and Egyptians first created alloys and developed the practice of metallurgy. Anyone interested in a highly skilled profession that offers a broad variety of career paths might consider welding. Among these paths are tack welding, […]
Supporting Barber Schools with STARS
According to recent statistics, there are thousands of trade, career, and postsecondary technical schools in the United States. They employ well over 120,000 people. Of those schools, more than 1300 of them train barbers. Barbering today is different from 50 years ago. Haircuts are not the only service offered. The current trend is for schools […]
STARS Management Tools for Cosmetology Schools
People who want to enter the field of cosmetology can obtain training and meet licensing requirements by attending one of the many postsecondary cosmetology schools in the country. Requirements vary and are specific to the state in which a person wants to gain employment. The cosmetology industry is expected to see continued growth. The result […]
Supporting Healthcare Career Schools with STARS
The greatest opportunities for job growth through 2030 are found in the field of healthcare. This is largely due to an emphasis on preventative care and the needs of an aging population. In fact, the U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the number of older Americans in need of care will increase by nearly 18 million […]
Career Schools and the Need for Management Software
The first career school in the United States was Foster’s Commercial School of Boston which opened in 1832. Just a few years later, 15 to 20 more private career schools were training students in business-oriented subjects. By the time of the Civil War in the 1860’s, major chains of career schools began operations. One can […]