Sentences with phrase «of vocational colleges»

In Metzler v. Corinthian Colleges, Inc., the plaintiff alleged that the defendant, an operator of vocational colleges, had manipulated student enrollment data, and that plaintiff suffered losses when the company issued a press release showing lower earnings than the false data had suggested.

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

Applicants must be graduating high - school seniors who are entering their freshman year at an accredited two - or four - year university, college or vocational institute in the fall of 2013.

Indeed, a study from the 1960s study found that undeclared majors were «more likely to emphasize intellectual development as a goal of college» than they were vocational training.

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.

During her time at Alderson, Fromme had access to a wide range of educational courses from G.E.D. classes to college classes to vocational training.

The figure below was in the WSJ this AM, in an interesting piece about how, given the rising costs of college relative to incomes, some kids and their parents are taking a closer look at alternatives like technical / vocational programs.

Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

However, I will not focus on those features of the university that are clearly not relevant to the college, such as its vocational and professional schools and its research institutions with their close ties with the military - industrial complex.

I'm currently on a professional chef's diploma at my local college in Essex, the course is vocational and I train in both the cooking side of the industry and as a waitress.

Ursula Garza HOUSTON Words, a sophomore at Platte County (Mo.) Vocational College, and Garza, a senior at the University of Texas, won titles at the national collegiate weightlifting championships.

Americorps, for example, offers hundreds of programs across the United States with a small stipend, plus a chance to obtain money for college or vocational training.

Others may decide to take a degree course by correspondence, or to go to a vocational college where a portfolio of work is of more value than any qualifications.

@blip: For an analogy, say you win the lottery (IOW find you have a lot of oil) when you're just out of high school, so you don't bother with college or vocational training, but spend your lottery money on partying (IOW socialist programs).

A former Aide of Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed of Kwara State, Prince Tunji Moronfoye has stated that the establishment of International Vocational Training and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase - ipo would reduce youth restiveness and unemployment.

The metro mayor should use his or her influence and informal powers to better link businesses with colleges and universities to ensure that courses and vocational education match the needs and opportunities of the city region's businesses, and provide residents with higher skills and better access to opportunities in the future.

Government is also building and commissioning more Community Day Senior High schools, to increase access and to reduce imbalance in the provision of education across the country.This is the vision of the government; to transform Ghana into a leading education hub, for the West African Sub-region, and it was also building new universities, training colleges and vocational schools across the country.

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State has urged the first set of graduates of solar technology from the International Vocational, Technical and Entrepreneurship College (IVTEC), Ajase - ipo, to take up the business passionately as a means of creating wealth for themselves and conserving the environment.

«Some of those cases traditional college is great, and some of those cases, vocational programs are much better,» Wilson said.

The task force recommends that the state invest $ 23 million in the continuation and expansion of P - TECH schools as well as making them permanent in state statute, increasing BOCES participation and incentives for teachers to join such vocational schools, and investing $ 12 million to continue and expand early college high schools as well as make them permanent in state statute.

The changes will allow the city to open a vocational school and a combined high school and community college on the campus of Murry Bergtraum High School in Lower Manhattan.

He's also proposing regional workforce development councils to better coordinate the vocational efforts of high schools, community colleges and local industries.

«Pupils and teachers in 2014 are going to have to cope with new GCSEs, new A-levels, new vocational qualifications, new ways of tracking pupil progress once levels are abolished, on top of new curriculum content in all subjects,» the Association of School and College Leaders» Brian Lightman warned.

The highest goal of most 2 - year college academic (as opposed to vocational) programs — and it is a high goal indeed — is to send graduates on to 4 - year colleges.

Faced with declining enrollment and rising costs, some small liberal arts colleges have added professional and vocational majors, a decision University of Iowa researchers say has strengthened rather than undermined the mission of the schools.

Miller said the next step would be to examine how these colleges implement their professional and vocational majors and how their approach not only differs from large universities but influences the educational outcome of students.

However, the changing landscape of higher education has prompted a number of liberal arts colleges to adopt professional and vocational programs.

«China's solar industry grows fast... but it lacks vocational programs to create skilled work force that the industry needs badly,» Zhang Qingyu, the college's president, said of why Himin Solar opened its wallet to support education.

To groom more Chinese to become solar energy professionals, Zhang's college provides a three - year vocational program free of charge and offers scholarships to those from poor families.

«Social workers should assist families with the coordination of essential services such as medical treatment, mental health supports, independent living, respite care, college support and enhanced vocational support.»

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A former research and teaching assistant in the College of Education at Michigan State University, with prior experience in law enforcement, architecture, art and design before becoming involved in technological services to those with special needs, working in universities (including teaching at both Michigan State and Grand Valley State Universities), K - 12 schools, businesses, and vocational rehabilitation services.

One of only a handful of colleges in the country to secure Ofsted's «outstanding» grading in the last academic year, Gateshead College delivers apprenticeships and other vocational training with hundreds of companies around the region, including large multi-nationals and SMEs.

The move has led to the creation of a college that today caters for more than 20,000 pupils studying for a wide range of vocational courses that lead to BTEC, NVQ, City & Guilds and other specialist qualifications, as well as higher education courses validated by the University of Greenwich and Canterbury Christ Church University.

Speaking at Gateway Technical College in Kenosha, Wisconsin last April, President Donald Trump said, «Vocational education is the way of the future.»

Thomas J. Kane, «Postsecondary and Vocational Education: Keeping Track of the College Track» in Indicators of Children's Well - Being (New York: Russell Sage, 1997).

Raising student achievement, boosting high school graduation rates and college completion rates, re-envisioning vocational education to equip our kids for twenty - first - century jobs — all of that matters immensely.

New vocational colleges, built and operated by British consortium through the KSA's Colleges of Excellence (CoE) programme, are springing up across the country.

Washington — Despite the scant attention paid to vocational education in the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said last week that the nation's vocational system is nonetheless an important educational concern and should become an equal partner with college - preparatory programs.

But just as AP courses give students an option to test out of college work and vocational education allows students hands - on work experience, online learning is another way to diversify instructional offerings.

«We pride ourselves on offering relevant and valuable vocational qualifications to ensure students have their best chance of walking into work after leaving us,» says Alan Jones, Curriculum Manager for Culture, Media & Sport at Darlington College.

He found kids fighting in the corridors, poor attendance, seven layers of academic tracking that placed students in classes ranging from college bound to vocational to disregarded — mostly along racial and socioeconomic lines — and a disheartened teaching staff.

We interviewed the parents of one high school junior in a school outside New York City who had set up a vocational school in South America so that their daughter could write in her college application that she had started a school in a developing country.

He approves of community colleges, higher education generally, even vocational education - they teach real skills and how to work.

The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to debunk widely circulated e-mails that erroneously say the No Child Left Behind Act mandates that students who fail their 10th grade reading and math tests must accept an inferior high school completion certificate that would prohibit them from attending college or vocational school.

And unlike the case in other countries, where higher education is essentially vocational or professional, American colleges and universities offered liberal arts education — a broad set of courses which developed analytic, creative and communicative capacities.

And, as well as classroom learning, links with community organisations and universities meant that students could also gain access to vocational skills or, through state of the art IT, participate in college - level classes online.