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The Naval Academy Preparatory School or NAPS is the preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy (USNA). NAPS is located on Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island.The mission of the Naval Academy Preparatory School is "To enhance Midshipman Candidates' moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the United States Naval Academy".
Registered Apprenticeship is a program of the United States Department of Labor that connects job seekers looking to learn new skills with employers looking for qualified workers. Employers , employer associations, and joint labor-management organizations, known collectively as "sponsors", provide apprentices with paid on-the-job learning and ...
It became NAPS in the early 1920s, and by 1925, it had 5,500 members. [1] [2] In January 1946, the association was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), [3] and by 1953, its membership had grown to 16,500. [4] However, it resigned from the AFL in 1955, prior to that federation's merger into the AFL-CIO. [5]
The number of American apprentices has increased from 375,000 in 2014 to 500,000 in 2016, while the federal government intends to see 750,000 by 2019, particularly by expanding the apprenticeship model to include white-collar occupations such as information technology.
The Navy produced 2,208 NAPs during the war and trained ? NAPs between 1945 and 1948. To meet the demand of the Korean War, 5 NAPs were created in 1950 before the program was closed. The Coast Guard produced 179 NAPs during the war and later trained 37 NAPs between 1945 and 1948. The Marine Corps produced 480 NAPs during the war.
A shoemaker and his apprentice c. 1914 Electricians are often trained through apprenticeships. Apprenticeship is a system for training a new generation of practitioners of a trade or profession with on-the-job training and often some accompanying study (classroom work and reading). Apprenticeships may also enable practitioners to gain a license ...
The National Apprenticeship Act (also known as the Fitzgerald Act), is a federal law in the United States which regulates apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs. Apprentice programs in the U.S. were largely unregulated until 1934.
The Nuclear Power School (NPS) is a technical training institution operated by the United States Navy in Goose Creek, South Carolina.It serves as a core component of the Navy’s program to prepare enlisted sailors, officers, and civilians employed at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory for the operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants aboard surface ...