Hampton High School and Irving Pulp & Paper Partnership in Education: The Benefits of Teaching and Learning Employability Skills

Hampton High School and Irving are co-operating to make secondary school technical education programming more relevant by using it as a vehicle to enhance secondary students’ generic employability skills.

Document Highlights

After conducting surveys in its own schools, School District 6 established an Industrial-Technical Education Committee (ITEC) composed of educators, employers and parents, to raise awareness of the importance of technical education in rapidly changing workplace environments and promote its technical education program.

ITEC’s purpose was to:

1. create an awareness of the needs of industry into the 21st century;
2. create a profile of the kind of worker that can meet these needs;
3. create an awareness within the local school system, among parents and in the public at large both of the long-term needs of industry and the type of employees they will need; and
4. co-operate with each other to develop innovative new business–education partnerships in the Saint John area.

This case study looks at the:

• program goals;
• activities;
• resources required;
• achievements;
• benefits
• keys to success; and
• greatest challenge.