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Show Utah Foundation Reports Lack Oi Interest In Vocational Training What kind of job training ca. be given to the more than VC of Utah youth who do not go i college is the subject of a repo entitled "Vocational Educator, in Utah," released today by U::-Foundation, U::-Foundation, the non-profit pih ate tax-research agency. Federal, state, and local fun. spent for vocational educatio in Utah totaled $575,000 in 1946-47 school year with mo. than $1 million available di;r ing the 1947-48 school year, a. cording to the report. According to the study, one the major questions relating vocational education progrr whether courses in trades and skills should continue to be deferred de-ferred until after completion of high school by the trainee, or whether such courses should b: offered in lieu of the last two years of the regular high school curriculum. The report pointi out that vocational classes of fered at the high school level are more likely to arouse the interest in-terest of youths during the yean when the law requires them to remain in school anyway. Present enrollment in Utah vocational schools is made up largely of veterans who rcc;ive subsistence allowances or on-the-job training pay from the Federal Government. Indications Indica-tions thus far are that ua-tively ua-tively few students above high school age in Utah seek vocational voca-tional training in school programs pro-grams where a fee is charged and no subsidy is available for the time thev remain in school. Schools Can Accomodate More Shortages of skilled workers, according to the report, are more often traceable to the fact that sufficient numbers of individu als have not been willing to undergo the training and apprenticeship ap-prenticeship needed to acquire the necessary skill, preferring instead to secure employment not requiring such' skills. Even though Utah facilities for training train-ing in trade and industrial skills are limited, present enrollment en-rollment is substantially below what present schools could accomodate. ac-comodate. The report summarizes the policy po-licy issues to be decided in the following questions: How much job training can be given by schools to the 70 of Utah youth who do not go to college? Should such job training be given at the high school level or as postgraduate courses? Will students enroll for post-high post-high school vocational programs when subsidies to veterans are no longer a factor? Can vocational training best be given at the regular exist ing schools, or are separate vocational vo-cational schools desirable? Where separate vocational schools are created, should they be directed by state school authorities, auth-orities, or by local boards representing repre-senting the area served by t. school'.' , , , What courses should be taugn in the vocational piogram-which piogram-which should be left to the regular regu-lar high school and college ca. ricula? |