Across Africa we need school programs like this one in Wisconsin, USA. From Modern Machine Shop:
A high school in Wisconsin runs its manufacturing vocational program as a business. Students make parts for paying customers. The program is thriving, cash flow is strong, and local manufacturers can now hire recent graduates who already have experience in meeting customer demands...[continue reading] How can a public school system fund an effective manufacturing program? How can it provide education relevant to manufacturing today? And how can we make manufacturing an attractive course of study to students?
One public school system in Wisconsin has what might be the answer to all three questions at once.
At Eleva-Strum Central High School in Strum, Wisconsin, the junior- and senior-level manufacturing vocational program is now run as a business. That business goes by the name Cardinal Manufacturing.
Students in this program don’t do make-work projects. They do real work for real customers with real quality and delivery demands...[continue reading]