A class of 20 first-semester Automotive Systems Technology students at Forsyth Technical Community College has achieved a pass rate of 80 percent on the national Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) Toyota T-TEN certification test. By comparison, the national average for first-time T-TEN students taking this exam is 30 percent. Dealership technicians with two or more years’ experience average a pass rate of approximately 40 percent on the ASE exam.
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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Forsyth Tech Interior Design Students Achieve Trifecta in Kitchen & Bath Competition
Wins in State Competition Opens Doors to National Competition
Three students in Forsyth Technical Community College’s Interior Design Program took the top three awards in the Eastern Carolinas Chapter of the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) student design competition that took place last month.
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Forsyth Tech Opens New Stokes County Campus
Leaders in a Piedmont Triad county say a brand new addition to their area is bringing better education opportunities to their backyard.
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A Whole New Life
Elke Ebhodaghe, AAS, Radiography
A New Country, A New Career
When Elke Ebhodaghe moved to Winston-Salem from Germany with her husband and daughter in 2006, she was hoping to continue her career as an optician, but unfortunately North Carolina’s licensing board did not recognize the undergraduate degree she obtained in Germany. She was told she could be re-trained, but the only college in North Carolina where she could get the training she needed was in Durham, and traveling back and forth from Winston to Durham for two-plus years just wasn’t practical. “So I started looking into other careers,” she remembers, “and I wanted something health related.”
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Violence against police officers cuts into recruitment efforts
Some police training programs are seeing the number of applicants drop as concerns mount about the danger of policing and public criticism of the profession.
