Sentences with phrase «by vocational schools»

Employers prefer to hire transcriptionists who have completed postsecondary education in medical transcription, which is offered by vocational schools, community colleges, and distance - learning programs.

Some tour guides obtain diplomas by completing certificate programs provided by vocational schools.

And many of those skills aren't being taught by the programs currently offered by vocational schools and colleges across Canada, Gilbert says.

Not exact matches

Unions in the utility industry, health care and manufacturing industries are using knowledge and skills as the key source of worker power by expanding apprenticeship training, creating partnership with community colleges, vocational schools, and employers to fill the «middle skills» gaps that exist today or will grow as skilled baby boomers retire.

One of the main tasks of the school is competent vocational guidance, which is governed primarily not by the principle of helping the student prepare for and get the position he wants, but by the objective of teaching students to know their own abilities and the nature of their society and persuading and inspiring them to devote their energies to the tasks that most urgently need to be done.

Many current grads of theological schools have zero hope of landing a FTE job in their denomination, and must be content with part time work, supplemented by other vocational pursuits.

«By Free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition, which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free», he explained, adding that, «Free SHS will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level.

As part of a wide - ranging review into vocational education, the engineering qualification developed by JCB, Rolls Royce, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Cambridge, will in future count as only one GCSE rather than five as is the case now in school performance league tables.

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He recalled how his father used a «pine rolltop desk from a vocational high school in Buffalo» at the executive mansion in Albany, how Mario felt a «natural affinity» for Buffalo and its people, a devotion forged by a shared perspective that began in Mario's Great Depression childhood.

President Mahama announced that 60 of the community Day Senior High schools being built by government will be equipped to serve as technical and vocational training centres.

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

In his State of the State address, Cuomo will propose spending $ 11.5 million on Long Island to thwart gang recruitment by expanding after - school programs, vocational training and education efforts.

This is particularly true for many (former) Labour supporters who have been left behind by the global economy and technological change — people who left school early and lack academic or vocational qualifications.

Board Member Patty Pierce says one area where the schools might help is by offering more vocational training

Hundreds of thousands of youngsters were left in limbo without any properly organised support — other than that provided by individual schools — to make excruciatingly difficult decisions about their future educational, vocational and professional futures.

The project will be supported by: (1) an experienced job placement specialist; (2) trained peer mentors to help recruit participants, maintain a social media presence and provide pre-and post-placement support; (3) internships and other work experience; (4) coordination between school and placement staff from the Florida Department of Vocational Rehabilitation for eligible students; (5) financial training to enable participants to begin building assets; and (6) work incentives information for students receiving Social Security disability benefits.

The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) is licensed as a vocational school by the New York State Education Department under the terms of section 5001 through 5010 of the Education Law of the State of New York.

Consider another example: the Progressive Education Association officially expired in 1955, yet 20 years later many schools were still providing the curriculum recommended by its Life Adjustment subsidiary - that 20 percent of high - school students should receive vocational training, 60 percent a «general» curriculum, including such courses as «marriage and the family,» and the remaining 20 percent academic instruction.

Bashaarat wrote: «Vocational qualifications are highly rated by universities and employers but are overlooked and misunderstood by independent schools and parents.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

By 1940, technical and vocational schools were well established, and high - school graduation rates rose to 50 percent.

Minister for Education Simon Birmingham said the National Review of Teacher Registration, which had been endorsed by state and territory ministers at the Education Council, would focus on the registration of early childhood teachers, vocational education and training teachers in schools as well as how new teachers transition into the profession.

July 15 — American Indian education: The U.S. Education Department is inviting applications for awards under its Indian Vocational Education Training Program, to provide financial assistance to American Indian tribes and certain schools funded by the U.S. Interior Department, for planing, conducting, and administering projects, or portions of projects, that are authorized by and consistent with the purposes of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1990.

School districts can enhance their vocational - education programs by placing caring and competent staff members in key positions, building in evaluations from the outset, and insuring that the curriculum covers four essential components — applied academics, vocational - technical education, job - search skills, and life - coping skills, according to a report released last month.

Menino's support for making Madison Park a model of urban vocational education follows the release of a report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office of Career and Technical Education in the spring of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School of Education's Pathways to Prosperity Project Director William Symonds and Strategic Education Research Partnership Program Director Claire White.

«While Madison Park has struggled, our review concludes that it can aspire to the same level of excellence already achieved by vocational high schools elsewhere in the Commonwealth.»

The report suggests that this could be because high attaining pupils were the first to be encouraged by their schools to enter the EBacc, whereas lower attaining pupils may have been steered away from vocational qualifications in the direction of the arts.

In short this school has brought awareness among the inhabitants of the Pamohi and other nearby tribal villages regarding the importance of education and create an environment to attract children by not only imparting formal education but also vocational trainings and as the children are now attending school and parents are becoming aware, the problem of child labour in the villages have reduced to a great extend.

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems (IPEDS) IPEDS combines the surveys conducted by the U. S. Department of Education and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), to provide information on all postsecondary institutions as well as all technical and vocational schools participating in federal student aid programs or Title IV funding programs (NCES, n.d).

Anthony Schell, a Spanish teacher at Baltimore's Mergenthaler Vocational - Technical High School, protests the idea of employee furloughs at a Jan. 28 rally organized by the city teachers» union.

Menino's support for making Madison Park a model of urban vocational education follows the release of a report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office of Career and Technical Education in the spring of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School of Education's...

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

Historically, as we have seen, school leaders «solved» this problem by assigning supposedly less able students to the general or vocational tracks and watering down the courses they took.

But witnesses at a hearing on school finance held by the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational education said such a program would probably cost too much to win approval.

By 1920 most big - city high schools in the country were offering four high - school tracks: college preparatory, commercial (which prepared students, mostly young women, for office work), vocational (industrial arts and home economics), and general (which offered a high - school diploma without any specific preparation for future educational or vocational endeavors).

But these standards do not by themselves necessarily account for the gains in achievement by all demographic groups and by our regional vocational / technical high schools (which enroll a disproportionate number of special education students and below - grade level readers).

In addition to this, eight in 10 (80 per cent) of the secondary school leaders surveyed by The Key maintain that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) performance measure, in particular, is limiting opportunities for their pupils with vocational or technical aptitude.

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

Sitting alongside studio schools and suggestions given by the review into vocational education led by Professor Wolf, a new type of school is being mooted, the University Technical Colleges.

Commenting on the need of such programs, Development Alternatives says «In the most practical terms, an illiterate person can not ethically sign a contract, can not get vocational training, can not help their children with their schooling and can not communicate with family members in other towns and villages except by phone.

The government at the time restructured the system — the existing eight - year primary school followed by early vocational tracking was replaced by six years of primary education and three years of lower general secondary education.

Preparing Secondary Students for Work makes a clear distinction between vocational learning (managed by the school sector) and VET, which is managed by the VET sector.

The formation of the 12 - member «Schools and University Education Council,» which includes a teacher, a principal, a superintendent, a state vocational - education official, and unh faculty members, was announced last month by Education Commissioner Robert Brunelle and the university's president, Evelyn Handler.

The review will consider the registration requirements for vocational education and training teachers in school settings to ensure barriers are not created by inconsistent or different jurisdictional requirements.

But on that day, her attitude toward school had been buoyed by the possibility of adding vocational classes to her schedule senior year.

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Washington — Despite vigorous lobbying by higher - education groups, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved a bill directing the bulk of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools.

The reauthorization bill approved by the committee contained a slight modification in the measure as reported last month by the education subcommittee, which mandated that states channel 70 percent of federal vocational - education funds to secondary schools and 30 percent to postsecondary institutions.

By 2011, nearly two years after the Great Recession, more than one - quarter of young black males were neither employed nor enrolled in school or vocational training.