Sentences with phrase «because vocational students»

Because vocational students typically seek to enter the workforce without further training, deficiencies in their preparation are immediately visible — and have contributed to the growth of a multi-billion-dollar «shadow» educational system in the private sector designed to upgrade worker skills.

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Council members sounded off about some of the same issues, including the high cost of the bus passes given to students and the need to improve vocational education because there are jobs in the booming local construction industry and economy.

«This finding speaks to the need for greater focus at the secondary level on preparation for vocational / technical careers, because not every student can or wants to go to college,» the report says.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

Because jobs are now morphing more quickly than they used to, vocational programs are less likely to focus exclusively on training for one occupation and are instead designed to enable the student to move skillfully around a family of jobs and learn quickly as the demands of those jobs change.

College - bound students were funneled into academically rigorous, college - preparatory courses, while students not deemed to be college material — either because of low academic achievement or due to racial or economic discrimination — were tracked into vocational education courses designed to prepare them for direct entry into the workforce.

Because more of the routine jobs are being done by intelligent machines, vocational education students are expected to meet higher academic standards than before to enable them to qualify for jobs requiring more education.

 The Hon. Patrick Faber, the Minister of Education, noted recently:  «There are only three to four hundred trainees across the country that are full time and I know that it is improving but that is not the best bang for our buck.»  He went on to say:  «We need to highlight and trumpet the kind of work that is being done in the ITVETs [Institutes for Technical Vocational Education and Training] and CET -LCB- Centers for Employment Training] across the country, because the projects that are being done by these students are truly spectacular.»