MERIDIAN, Miss.
Job training is coming to the Internet in East Mississippi and West Alabama.
Electrical wiring, gear drive maintenance and drill press operation are some of the skills being made available through the West Alabama, East Mississippi Alliance (WAEM), which brings together eight community and junior colleges from Mississippi and Alabama.
“These four community colleges in Mississippi and four in Alabama, and the
Montgomery Institute here in Meridian, are recognizing that the way we’ve had a big surge in job growth in Mississippi the last couple of years that pretty soon our biggest problem is going to be that we don’t have enough skilled labor for the new jobs,” Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday at the announcement.
The system, which is being described as anytime, anywhere training is being purchased from Amatrol of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Nearly 500 interactive manufacturing modules are currently available. Officials said such virtual training puts East Mississippi and West Alabama on the forefront of technology.
