PTU: What exactly is it?

[Alina Israeli]

>  The
>client wants it to come across as equivalent to community college,
>giving an associate's degree, and my impression is that it is less than
>that, more like a trade school.

Absolutely not. The one that marginally, or maybe not so marginally would
qualify as associate degree is "texnikum", still secondary education, but
of a different nature: nursing, commerce, electronics, and so on. PTU is
strictly working class, do as you've been told, technical skills

__________________________
 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
 4400 Mass. Ave., NW
 Washington, DC 20016

 phone:    (202) 885-2387
 fax:      (202) 885-1076 

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