3,625 workers trained last year, a 300 percent increase over two years ago.
AUGUSTA – Demand for short-term workforce training is at an all-time high at Maine’s community colleges, which saw a 300 percent increase in trainee graduates over the last two years.
That figure – 3,625 people trained in the fiscal year ending June 30 – doesn’t capture the hundreds of students currently enrolled in scores of new, free, online health care training programs.