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FROED
One Government Center
Fall River, MA 02722-7700
508-324-2620
508-677-284 |
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As
one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, Fall River boasts
a stable, diversified and skilled workforce, the majority of
whom are between 25 and 44 years old. The city's men and women
are productive and highly motivated, and business training and
educational programs are readily available.
Fall River Career Center
 Fall
River actively promotes state and federal job training programs
to help meet the needs of the city's business community. The
Bristol County Training Consortium (BCTC) and the state Division
of Employment and Training (D.E.T.) operate the Fall River Career
Center, a clearing house for local employee recruitment and
training activities. Under the auspices of the region's Workforce
Investment Board, the center coordinates job training services
for employers and employees, assists businesses interested in
the Workforce Training Fund grant program, and offers recruitment
opportunities such as onsite job fairs. The Career Center also
serves as the employer's liaison with local schools and colleges
including Bristol Community College and UMass Dartmouth. Both
schools have assumed leadership roles in developing innovative
business training programs.
Intellectual Capital
In Fall River, businesses enjoy a close working relationship
with area schools, ensuring that today's students are prepared
to meet tomorrow's business challenges. There is a renewed commitment
to invest in this greatest of Fall River's resources - the community's
intellectual capital - and the city has embarked on an unprecedented
capital improvement program for its educational facilities.
New schools are being built and the curriculum is being revised
through comprehensive educational reform.
Currently, area students have access to:
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- 30
elementary schools
- 11
elementary parochial schools
- 4
middle schools
- 1
comprehensive high school
- 1
parochial high school
- 1
regional vocational high school
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Fall River's superb network of public, private and vocational
schools is complemented by institutions of higher learning such
as Bristol Community College, UMass Dartmouth, Bridgewater State
College and Roger Williams University. Certificates programs
in the fields of culinary arts and health care are offered by
the International Institute of Culinary Arts and the Salter
School, respectively.
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city is also within 50 miles of Boston's world-class collection
of colleges and universities, and only minutes away from top
schools in nearby Providence, Rhode Island. Harvard, MIT,
Brown and Boston College are among the area's many fine institutions
of higher learning. Others include Providence College, Boston
University, Northeastern, the University of Rhode Island and
Johnson & Wales. In total, approximately 15,000 students
are enrolled in colleges and universities just within a 30-mile
radius of Fall River.
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