cookderosa Wrote:Any field with an AAS or AOS degree, if you go back 50 years, was probably an apprenticeship or on the job training career.Thankfully, on this side of the border, it still works this way (mostly).
Here, there's a school-component to most apprenticeships and this part is handled largely by the Community Colleges. Our local CC spent $30-million re-equipping a campus for trade skills-training, apprenticeships, etc. I got some direct benefit from that myself. I took a residential design/construction program - theory in the classroom, then cutting rafters, soldering pipes and wiring sockets etc. on the trades campus. Great instruction, thoroughly professional equipment and workspace.
No associate degree, though. But the cert. looks nice -and that's just fine with me!
Johann
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