Sentences with phrase «of vocational students»

Neither Ashaki nor Nasiah fits the stereotype of a vocational student who leaves 12th grade with mediocre academic skills, picks up a wrench and never returns to a classroom.

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Kenney said Ottawa and provincial governments can also look at «ways of massively expanding paid co-op opportunities for students during post-secondary education» and consider «reinventing» vocational high schools.

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.

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.

The more pluralized the student body becomes in regard to age, previous experience, earlier education, sex, race, social location, and vocational self - understanding, the less workable is a single, prescribed sequence of courses.

Similarly, students in master of divinity and other professional programs are usually asked about vocational goals; strong interest in ordained ministry is, of course, welcome, but fewer institutions now than in the past require that all students in ministry programs be sponsored or approved by ordaining bodies.

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.

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

With skillful teaching it is often possible for the same course of study to be vocational for those students who need it to be and a liberal study for those who do not.

For years we've had our students read the appropriate literature — from Elmer Gantry to Wise Blood — on the implicit assumption that these and other portraits of slightly out - of - whack ministers accurately represent the norm of vocational misery among Protestant clergy.

It will not only «continually be pushing students to examine the ultimate presuppositions with which they think» but will also keep a close relationship «between the formal structure of thought and concrete human problems» and between the subject matter and students» vocational commitments.

The Culinary School at Eva's Village is a six - month vocational program, and many of the students even came in over the weekend prior to try out recipes they planned to present during the Kontos Foods Culinary Challenge.

(While this was also arguably the original goal of academies / universities centuries ago, the modern university model has become a vocational school of sorts — preparing students for success in future endeavors, rather than seeking discovery, enlightenment, and progress through the efforts of its constituents.

For students with physical and / or intellectual disabilities that require a more supported work environment, the North Carolina Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services assists with job placement.

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

Key to that effort so far has been a commitment of $ 12,000 and a staff leader to head the preservation effort by Cornell Cooperative Extension Service of Rockland County, headquartered in Thiells; and Rockland County BOCES, which has committed its vocational education home building students to the actual work effort, as part of a new construction major in historic restoration and preservation instead of concentrating solely on new construction techniques, their emphasis for the past half - century.

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.

She said government planned to set up Business Support Services to provide take - off base for students of its Vocational Skills Programmes and for women that want to set up businesses.

Policies that develop the petrochemical industry in Nzema to offer direct employment or ancillary services for the unemployed residents to earn descent salaries to meet the high cost of living the oil discovery has brought in its wake; policies that improve education facilities in Nzema here and provide scholarships for needy students to expand their knowledge base and acquire relevant competencies for employment into the oil sector; policies that offer apprenticeship and vocational training for the youth who are unable to acquire formal education so that they are also not left out of employment; policies that develop infrastructures in Nzema are what we need.

Students also have the option of attending vocational programs through The Greater Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Educational Services (GST BOCES).

Another group of schools that often over perform relative to the socio - economic background of their students are well focused vocational training schools.

Secondary students enjoy a full and rich selection of academic, vocational, and extracurricular programs.

In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Community Board 2 has called on the Department of Education to approve plans for Hunts Point High School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.»

The next problem is the lack of a comprehensive vocational education program for Buffalo Public Schools and the inability for Buffalo students to participate in BOCES programs located in the suburbs.

According to President Akufo - Addo, «we want to emphasize the importance of TVET, and redeem the misconception that technical and vocational education is inferior, and patronized only by less - endowed students.»

Students who are least able to afford high tuitions are awarded degrees of questionable value or pay a relative fortune for low - quality and low - prestige vocational preparation.

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.

Before his accident, he was a world - class rock climber — but a C and D high school student who attended vocational school at night and «didn't know what 10 percent of 100 was.»

Students exposed directly to work environments in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields are more likely to decide to follow paths that will lead to such careers, according to the findings of «Vocational Anticipatory Socialization of Adolescents: Messages, Sources, and Frameworks that Influence Interest in STEM Careers,» published online today in the National Communication Association's Journal of Applied Communication Research.

The target group of the study consisted of first and second year vocational school students and their teachers from different fields.

The authors blame lowering of entrance requirements, and the increasing numbers of students moving to engineering degrees from vocational courses.

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.

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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.

The fact that there has been a 2,300 per cent increase in the number of students taking vocational qualifications since 2004 should not solely be attributed to students and schools taking the easy option in maintaining their position in the league tables.

MITIE will provide mentoring and invaluable work experience for the students to complement their theoretical learning as an integral part of this vocational course.

In a recent nationwide survey of 181 secondary and postsecondary vocational educators, more than 60 percent said their students have a «decreasing» amount of time to take vocational courses.

The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

«This has been found to be the case for Indigenous students in some regions where «cohorts of students are directed toward these [vocational] options on assumptions about their culture or SES backgrounds».»

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

They are playing a vital role in the provision of sport in their local communities, providing volunteering and vocational opportunities to their students, enjoying increased local status, and many are generating additional income.

Responding to the plans, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the NUT, said: «Many students will be left disaffected by this news which appears to relegate arts and vocational subjects to second best options.

It occupies a large geographic and administrative footprint, it incorporates Learning Services South (which is the south of Tasmania), the largest school farm, which is located a short drive away, and we also have direct oversight over a Trade Training Centre, which provides really first class training facilities for vocational education and training (VET) for our students and the broader community.

Relying on current tenets of social science, they advocated steering a majority of students into vocational and industrial education.

«The broad aim of the commission was to try to blend back together somewhat vocational education and academic education, and to ensure that a student has a broad enough base that he or she would be adaptable to different work environments upon graduation,» said R. Lawrence Williams,...

But while their attention has been concentrated on student performance based on standard intelligence tests, they have often overlooked the fact that vocational classrooms have their share of «gifted and talented,» said an educator who addressed a group of vocational leaders meeting here recently.

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.

For each school, we know the nontargeted, or noncategorical, allocations made for each student who attends the school as well as how much the school received for five targeted groups of students: students eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, students eligible for bilingual education programs, students with disabilities, gifted students, and students in vocational education programs.

The formula is adjusted for special education students, English - language learners, geographic cost of living, geographic isolation, small schools, compensatory education, vocational education students, and gifted - and - talented students.

The Children's Aid Society of New York began to provide meals to vocational students in 1853 and was soon followed by other civic organizations that did the same in Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and Chicago, among others.