Sentences with phrase «low skills profession»

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Going into the trades shouldn't be considered a consolation job, but it looks like the growing interest among young people in the skilled professions is exactly that — a lowering of their sights.

There is clearly a correlation between what people think important and what they are willing to spend money on, and the notoriously low salaries of ministers in comparison with those in other skilled professions may be an index of ill health.

Yet the profession is often limited and referred to as just gardening and therefore perceived as a low skilled occupation.

The committee concluded that moves by many states in recent years to require teacher candidates to pass basic - skills tests have failed to improve the quality of students entering the profession because passing scores have been set too low.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

A career considered a high - skilled profession in one decade such as switchboard can quickly become a low - skilled job in the next (or, as in the case, of switchboard operators, disappear altogether).

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

Growing numbers of highly skilled technical staff leaving the profession lead to lower levels of patient care and increased patient - to - staff ratios.

In China where I am now based, the government is seeking to improve skills levels to fill critical skills shortages within high - skill professions in a move to shift the economy from low - skill manufacturing to a higher quality goods and service exporter.

SES (both partners) was assessed according to education, profession and jobs in five categories: (i) high professional: director, manager, professionals in leading positions, (ii) low professional: entrepreneur, works manager, trade, nurse and so on, (iii) skilled worker: shop assistant, clerk, nursing assistant and so on, (iv) unskilled worker, and (v) no paid job outside the home and students.