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THE BATTALION Page WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1977 ghly ani dis vere -k a Technical schools develop skills -om ould ocks “fu nod ount good 7eral wing time ness United Press International |he help wanted ads of the na- jn’s newspapers describe job nings for skilled persons, he key word: skilled, lor college graduates without a bketable skill, for high school Iduates hoping for a good job and I middle-aged persons with obso- (skills there’s common puzzle- ent over how to qualify for one of ■ promising jobs in the want ads. IVhere do you go for “skill train- [?”Tom Hebert and John Coyne, lication consultants based in fashington, D.C., recommend icing over private trade and tech- lal schools. They spent 2!6 years investigat- I schools offering skill training, ley asked the hard questions: Are these fly by night schools? [wgood is the training? Will the ning get me a good job?” f^Mheirreport, “Getting Skilled,” is JOj lonsumer’s guide to the private le and technical schools. The ate schools are in business to M U Ike a profit. This is in contrast to I I public trade schools run on dol- SN I from axes. n an interview, Hebert said a Bre are a few bad apples among I private schools but “most de- ron their promises. ” he guide is based on interviews jh students and parents, recent duates, school owners and ismen, and reports from the eral Trade Commission and the ter Business Bureau. The guide is meant to be flipped through and thumbed. It contains a complete listing of schools accre dited by the National Association of Trade and Technical Schools. The listings are arranged two ways. In the first, schools are listed by the training they offer; in the second, by the states in which they are located. “In the early stages of researching for the guide, we talked to Marshall Palley, Director of the New Vo cations Center of the American Friends Service Committee in San Francisco,” Hebert said. “Marshall told us what he tells young persons these days. ‘Pick a vocation and stick with it. ‘“Generalization will come natur ally, as you feel the need to expand the job to keep it from becoming dead. If you don’t pecializeb, it’s dif ficult for you to do anything.’” The basis of proprietary profit making school training is the per formance contract signed by both student consumer and the school,” Hebert said. “The school agrees to give the training if the student abides by the fee schedule and the school rules. Both sides have to live up to the contract.” The schools tend to be small. Hebert estimated average enroll ment is fewer than 300. “As a result, these schools are friendly, personal places. They are student-centered. We found the trade school owners have a belief in their students that we rarely encountered on college campuses.” At an auto repair school, Hebert was told by the owner: “We get them to do things they have never done before.. . . we just keep a wrench in their hands. A kid comes back every day if he’s learning. And a welding school president said: “One feature of our admissions policy is what we call our Bad News Sheet. “This is given to every applicant and it lists all the negative aspects of this career. Our first goal with every man is to put him in touch with reality.” The American Council on Educa tion, which each year compiles re ports on characteristics of college freshmen, recently did its first “pro files” on trade school students. Highlights: —Proprietary school students are more confident of their educational and career plans and more labor market-oriented than other college students. —Proprietary students view them selves as less likely to change their field of study or career choice or to seek vocational counseling. They are more confident of finding a job in their preferred field. —In choosing a career, the market-oriented concepts of high earning, available jobs and career advancement are more important to proprietary students than to college freshmen. —The trade school students have higher self ratings on academic, ar tistic and writing abilities, as well as cheerfulness, attractiveness, popu larity, drive to achieve, self confi dence and understanding, than do community college students. —Life goals are similar for propriet ary and other college students. The proprietary students, however, place a slightly higher value on rais ing a family and being financially successful. i CeliLbr/\tih^ jyhime.se flew VearT -TT n TOWW ^ tlZS v chmesc-stitk wOvm aprons -karnb^o wpsticks and ikcWfcrs Cookbooks 3 7 ,5- STREET Oootfw C£/4T£fi. BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION’S LEADING AUDIO CENTER CUSTOM SOUNDS MEMBER SOCIETY OF AUDIO CONSULTANTS 'minessman heats eather problem NOW OPEN 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday United Press Internationa] IHICAGO — As Ohioans sit Wing through another bitterly Jweek and contemplate the dis- erous effects the natural gas I rtage is having on the economy. Mas businessman says he has answers to their problems. 'aulj. Venus, a retired Air Force .tenant colonel, told officials in M Statehouse last week that he has Me white box which, he says, m )ugh a secret process, produces thetic natural gas. — You may say that dog won’t b it, but if I tell a man I can heat - i boiler, and he ll pay me when I tit, I Can t understand any skep- m, ” says Venus, the chairman of eWorld Energy Corp. of Dallas. Be says Free World, a business )ted by six former military offi- Is, has formulated a nonpet- pm liquid fuel that burns with- Jodor or pollution, file liquid fuel is converted by |nus “white box’ an equally a, but potent, synthetic gas. You can inhale this stuff all day Igand it won’t hurt you,” he says. Ifet Venus claims the liquid has Ire than twice the heat value of loline and, when gasified, burns iter than propane. Free World can produce its liquid fuel for about 30 cents a gallon, he says, cheaper than gasoline. The regulated interstate price is a maximum $1.42 per thousand cubic feet for natural gas this winter and unregulated, intrastate market, gas is selling for $2 or more per thousand cubic feet. Venus says his gas would sell for $2.75 a thousand cubic feet, but his company would give clients a 10- year guarantee the fuel cost couldn’t increase. But you first have to buy a $50,000 converter, which Venus says makes the system practical now only for business and industry. He says Free World is just con cluding its research and develop ment, having spent $268,000 to come up with the pilot plant capable of making a half dozen gallons of liquid fuel a day and small-scale demonstration conversion units. It’s so simple it would rock your mind,” he says. “Somebody else has got to be working on the process. Maybe they have got it and don’t want to put it on the market. 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