Education & Workforce Development

Southeastern Wisconsin education consortiums will receive a share of state Youth Apprenticeship grants totaling $2.2 million to help better prepare students for in-demand technical jobs.

The Workforce Development Center will host an Autumn Recruitment Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Waukesha County Technical College Gymnasium, 800 Main St. in Pewaukee.

Wisconsin's unemployment rate remained at 4.6 percent in July, according to a preliminary estimate from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Wisconsin added 39,599 jobs in the 12 month period ending in March, according to the state Department of Workforce Development.

With a vision to honor Wisconsin employees who have persevered through significant employment barriers, the first annual Wisconsin Job Honor Awards is calling for award nominations.

Marian University has been awarded a five-year TRiO-Student Support Services program grant through the U.S. Department of Education to begin Sept. 1.

St. Norbert College will welcome the 29 students that make up its inaugural Master of Business Administration program class to campus Monday.

The Department of the History of Science at UW-Madison is the largest of its kind in the country, though it has only about a dozen faculty members.

A group of Republican legislators will meet this week to discuss the possibility of merging the Wisconsin Technical College System and the University of Wisconsin Colleges and Extension, lawmakers said Monday.