{"id":275393,"date":"2018-05-04T06:06:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=275393"},"modified":"2018-05-04T06:06:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T20:06:02","slug":"nmti-pacific-rim-collaborate-to-train-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmti-pacific-rim-collaborate-to-train-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NMTI, Pacific Rim collaborate to train students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_275396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-275396\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NMTI-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NMTI-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-275396\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-275396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Marianas Trades Institute and Pacific Rim are partnering to train students in the carpentry and electrical fields. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Trades Institute and Pacific Rim are partnering to train students in the carpentry and electrical fields. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 28 students composed of Guam and Saipan trainees are taking advantage of this collaboration as their training programs officially started this week.  <\/p>\n<p>The training curriculum was put together through a regional apprenticeship program offered by the U.S. Department of Labor through the Guam Job Center.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI serves as the official training unit after U.S. Apprenticeship approved the curriculum being taught prospective trainees.  The institute\u2019s curriculum is backed by the National Center for Construction Education &amp; Research through the Guam Contractors Association.  At the end, students are given the opportunity to become \u201cjourneymen\u201d as a result of receiving their U.S. DOL certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Agnes McPhetres, chief executive officer of NMTI, said, \u201cWe have always taken the responsibility of addressing the manpower shortage seriously. The CNMI is not a stranger to building training programs.  The CNMI has created numerous laws with the intent of establishing apprenticeships. However, this concept never seemed to take root in the CNMI [until] now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Ross Manglona, NMTI\u2019s director of Workforce Development, said, \u201cThis opportunity is a welcome one for the school as we stand by our product and we thank Pacific Rim for seeing the need to grow its employees from within, a concept that is fairly new to many in our community.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Trades Institute and Pacific Rim are partnering to train students in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":275396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12522,479,13196,20916],"class_list":["post-275393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam-contractors-association","tag-nmti","tag-pacific-rim","tag-workforce-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}