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First students in maritime training academy expected this summer

Associated Press — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:40:39 +0000

PASCAGOULA — Officials say classes should be underway inside Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Haley Reeves Barbour Maritime Training Academy by the end of summer. President Irwin Edenzon tells The Mississippi Press the academy, funded through a Hurricane Katrina community development block grant, is meant to provide a skilled workforce and will help Ingalls expand its two- to [...]

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Officials readying to cut ribbon on hospitality training center

Associated Press — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:49:41 +0000

GULFPORT — After a decade of planning, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College officials will cut the ribbon Friday on the nearly 51,000-square-foot Hospitality and Resort Management Center. MGCCC president Mary Graham tells The Sun Herald the state-of-the-art facility will provide a hands-on learning environment for students. The community college plans to work with Coast hospitality [...]

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Business group calls for new charter school law

Associated Press — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:01:31 +0000

JACKSON — A group of 22 business leaders is calling for a broadened charter school law, asking legislators on yesterday to enact a law that would allow the schools to set up in any district. The group calls itself Better Education for Mississippi and is led by Bomgar Corp. chairman Joel Bomgar, who leads a [...]

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Barbour earns Walker Award

MBJ Staff — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:57:06 +0000

At the annual Governor’s Workforce Conference in Jackson, Gov. Haley Barbour was awarded the first George F. Walker Workforce Training Award. Barbour was honored for his support of workforce training by reorganizing the state workforce system, establishing a stable funding source for job training initiatives and coordinating public and private sector efforts for workforce development. [...]

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Supervisors support plan to retrofit industrial park

Associated Press — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:13:59 +0000

OLIVE BRANCH — DeSoto County supervisors are supporting the retrofit of an Olive Branch industrial park operated by Northwest Mississippi Community College as a training site for high-technology jobs. The Commercial Appeal reports Jim Flanagan, DeSoto Economic Development Council chief, has told the supervisors that the site is needed for industrial recruitment. David Bledsoe, workforce [...]

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Exporting education

Wally Northway — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:26:09 +0000

Southern Miss a major player in deal with Panama On Aug. 2, a delegation of state leaders, including Gov. Haley Barbour, were on hand for the signing of an historic memorandum of understanding between the Mississippi State Port Authority at Gulfport and the Panama Canal Authority. The agreement, the first of its kind between [...]

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Gov. Barbour’s take on workforce development

Stephen McDill — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:49:24 +0000

JACKSON- Gov. Haley Barbour speaks on workforce development in Mississippi and its impact on the automotive industry at a symposium at the Mississippi College School of Law in Jackson.

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Dirt moving on hospitality/resort training center

Wally Northway — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:40:45 +0000

HARRISON COUNTY — One of the key issues facing the tourism industry on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is workforce development. Finding and retaining personnel post-Hurricane Katrina has proven challenging. So, hopes are high for a new, state-of-the-art Hospitality and Resort Management Center on the Jefferson Davis campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC). The [...]

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DMH’s Focus up for award

Wally Northway — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:30:01 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Mental Health’s (DMH’s) accelerated leadership development program, Focus, has been selected as one of eight regional finalists for the 2009 Council of State Government (CSG) Innovations Award. DMH will present the program to the Southern Regional Innovations Selection Committee Aug. 17. In 2007, DMH developed the Focus program to [...]

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