Sentences with phrase «of vocational study»

Some high schools even offer the training as part of vocational study programs.

According to recent figures from Ucas, over a quarter of English students accepted to university in 2015 held at least one BTEC (Business and Technician Education Council) in their qualification set, while business leaders have spoken in support of vocational study.

Vocational programs: Yasawa High School, together with Vinaka Fiji, have established two areas of vocational studies and work together to plan, implement and assess the programs.

hold at least one diploma that corresponds to one in the Quebec education system or to a Secondary School Diploma or a Diploma of Vocational Studies

Not exact matches

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.

A 2013 study, «Career Benefits Associated with Mentoring for Mentors,» published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, discovered people who have the opportunity to serve as mentors experience greater job satisfaction and a higher commitment to their employer.

While some degree programs also function as vocational training, others are more of a foundation for future study, whether formally or informally.

The concerns that surface when one considers piety or the quality and depth of the seminarian's relationship to God and other persons include: (1) Christian community, (2) spiritual formation, (3) vocational study, (4) ecumenical fellowship, (5) corporate worship, (6) personal witness and (7) community service.

This vocational emphasis affects not only the manifestly practical fields of study, such as the technical and professional disciplines, but even the «pure» liberal arts and sciences, which have commonly been represented as the studies appropriate for the nurture of the free man — studies whose justification and worth lie solely in themselves and not in any extrinsic purposes.

Hence, the recreative spirit may and should infuse and transform occupational effort, and the ideals of liberal learning become the measure of fundamental vocational study.

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.

Studies of judgment, stability, reliability, and social and vocational adaptiveness all show that gay men and lesbians function every bit as well as heterosexuals.»

However, while this may be increasingly apparent to those who devote a great deal of their vocational time to the serious study of those teachings, it is not so apparent to the millions of unsuspecting Christian laity who, having been so taken by the writings of Lindsey, LaHaye, et al., often dismiss those «centuries of Christian teaching» as «traditions of men.»

All studies, whether «general» or «special,» «liberal» or «vocational,» «theoretical» or «practical,» are subjects of esthetic concern.

The effect is to dump existing Liberal Democrat policy which seeks integrated education — in other words all young people to have opportunities to do vocational and academic study as part of a single curriculum..

It also reorganised secondary education into two basic types: grammar schools, which focused on academic studies, with the assumption that many of their pupils would go on to higher education; and secondary modern schools, which were intended for children who would be going into trades, and which therefore concentrated on basic and vocational skills.

Growing concern about the relevance of academic studies and a lack of technical skills in young people led in 2002 to the introduction of Vocational GCSEs.

«There has been a dramatic contraction of the prison education system, particularly those programs focused on academic instruction versus vocational training,» said Lois Davis, the study's lead author and a senior policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

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

Dr. O'Neill, director of Employment and Disability Research at Kessler Foundation, is the primary author of, «Return to work of disability insurance beneficiaries who do and do not access state vocational rehabilitation agency services,» published in the Journal of Disability Policy Studies.

He served as the Project Co-Director of two NIDILRR - funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers (RRTC), and is principal investigator for Kessler's pilot study of vocational rehabilitation in SCI funded by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation.

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.

These Yachting Cadetships for 18 -25-year-olds are generously part funded by two of the leading UK maritime charities, which makes them accessible to everyone and an immediately viable option for those considering vocational training over the more traditional study or career paths.

The Regents» proposals, based on a year - long study of the youth - unemployment problem in the state, included greater business and community involvement in the schools; more after - school vocational programs; and a greater emphasis on basic reading and mathematics skills...

Findings from the study of four districts that have undertaken systemic change were presented to the House Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education Subcommittee last week during a hearing on the federal role in systemic reform.

«Vocational Education for the 21st Century» is based on a study of 10 federally funded projects that were designed to demonstrate vocational education's role in meeting the needs of at - riskVocational Education for the 21st Century» is based on a study of 10 federally funded projects that were designed to demonstrate vocational education's role in meeting the needs of at - riskvocational education's role in meeting the needs of at - risk students.

A report of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education noted with alarm that in vocational programs girls comprise «only 4 % of heating, A / C and refrigeration students, 5 % of welding students, 6 % of electrical and plumber / pipefitter students,» while girls make up 98 percent of students enrolled in cosmetology and 87 percent of those studying child care.

October 19: Schooling in the Workplace: The Swiss Model with Noel Ginsburg, chairman and CEO of Intertech Plastics and chair of Colorado Advanced Manufacturing Alliance; Nancy Hoffman, vice president of Jobs for the Future and author of Schooling in the Workplace; Ursula Renold, head of the Comparative Education System Research Division, Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zürich; and Marc Tucker, president of National Center on Education and the Economy and leader of NCEE's international study of vocational education systems.

Both EBN schools offer a programme of study that encompasses GCSEs in sciences, English and maths, as well as the opportunity to work towards vocational qualifications in a range of other subjects.

The units do coinside with other BTEC qualifications, however, we use it here as a basic introduction to the kitchen, we deliver it to KS3 and Year 10 and often use the units of work to count towards their Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Vocational Studies (QCF).

Washington — A Pentagon - sponsored study comparing military recruits with a representative sample of other young Americans has found that the military volunteers — black, white, and Hispanic alike — score better than their civilian counterparts on a standard vocational aptitude test.

In a report summarizing the study upon which its recommendations are based, the Citizens» Council for Ohio Schools notes that fewer than half of the Ohio students who completed high - school vocational programs in 1982 found jobs in the field in which they trained.

Compelling research on CTE recently doubled with the release of a new study of regional vocational and technical high schools (RVTS) in Massachusetts.

Useful for vocational studies (apprenticeships), work based learning or «world of work» preparation.

Pupils now have to study English, maths, science, a language and either history or geography until the age of 16, but Wilshaw will claim that some youngsters are more suited for a vocational career.

«We already offer vocational learning to thousands of learners post sixteen, but by 2017 those aged 14 will have the choice to study at our Career College.»

PDK found that 61 percent of public school parents and guardians expect their children to attend college full - time (47 percent at a four - year school, 7 percent at a two - year, 4 percent at a vocational program, and some uncertain), with 22 percent of families expecting part - time work and study.

Maarit Rossi and Cecilia Villabona have worked hard the last two years to update the 10 - year project; to align it to the U.S. Curriculum and standards, to enhance it in ways that fulfill the PISA purpose of educating children so they develop the competencies and knowledge of students from around the world when they are at the end of their compulsory - basic education or at the beginning of their upper secondary or vocational studies.

What that demographic tends to seek for its children's education — besides the universal desiderata of «a solid core curriculum... an emphasis on... STEM education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills» — is schools that «offer vocational classes or job - related programs.»

Through this move into technology education — the study of industry and technology — the industrial - arts profession signaled an attempt to realign itself with the general - education program, and, at the same time, to strengthen its vocational and prevocational posture in the schools.

Robert M. Worthington, ed assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, recently met with the Academy's National Research Council to initiate a study of the nation's unemployment situation, paying special attention to minority groups in job - scarce areas.

Whether or not eLearning becomes the more popular form of learning between online and traditional learning, universities and professors will still offer students crucial skills and will still be required to teach students the practical skills in vocational studies.

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Berman laughed, reeling off the major changes that his colleagues have collaboratively implemented in fewer than 24 months: environmental magnet schools, university lab schools, new vocational curriculums for the high schools, performing arts in the elementary schools, more physical activity in the classroom, and international studies programs that will celebrate the cultural diversity of Jefferson County.

In the past, Adelman directed an evaluation of the Carnegie Corporation's Schools for a New Society Initiative and a study of state and local dual high school / college enrollment policies conducted for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

We help our students get the best possible GCSE results, and guide them through A Levels and vocational studies that prepare them for university and the world of work.

Titles Include: Curriculum Director, Subject Area Supervisors & Instructors for Mathematics, Reading, Science, English / Language Arts, Social Studies, Languages, Trades, Business, Special Education Director, Directors / Coordinators of Gifted, Special Education, Vocational Education, Professional Development, Director of Guidance and More.

(2) provide short - term training and instruction in technical matters * relating to vocational REHABILITATION services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for any one course of study for a period in excess of four years, and such training, instruction, fellowships, * and traineeships may be in the fields of REHABILITATION medicine, * REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, * REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, prosthetics and orthotics, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other specialized fields contributing to the * REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals; and

(b) Not later than June 30, 1974, the Secretary shall report to the Congress his findings and recommendations, including recommendations for additional legislation, with respect to the study required by this section, which report shall include recommendations with respect to allotment of Federal funds among the States and the Federal share of the cost of furnishing vocational REHABILITATION services by the States.

Making a study of psychology is as exciting and vocational a route as possible, whereas writing psychology papers can be a thankless, arduous task.