Sentences with phrase «says vocational courses»

The review says vocational courses should give pupils a general introduction to an industry, rather than training them for a specific job.

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In Brad's article the author says «Classes such as physical education, health, visual arts, music, foreign languages, vocational work, etc. don't qualify as core courses» which is what I found odd.

Mr Howard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the plans were «absolute nonsense», and said more students should do vocational courses instead.

He, therefore, solicited the partnership of the University of Wolverhampton, which he said has a long history of providing vocational and skills training on a regional basis, in the development of IVTEC and the state's Internal Revenue Service, (KWIRS) whose management had just completed an executive course at the University's Business School.

«We found that over half of the people with autism who used Vocational Rehabilitation services got jobs,» said Anne Roux, lead author of the report and research scientist in Life Course Outcomes at the institute.

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.

Dr Nick Smith, Courses Director and founder of Oxford Open Learning Trust, said: «Modern GCSEs are great for teaching a more vocational set of skills, but core subjects are still extremely important to overall education and job prospects.

Labour's Stephen Twigg said that he supported the «concept of an A Bacc», but said that it should have a range of subjects including computing and engineering and should work alongside their proposed «Tech Bacc» for vocational courses.

Vocational courses had helped to motivate students less suited to study academic courses, but were used «too extensively» in some schools, inspectors said.

Fewer say the goal is to provide career technical or vocational education (25 %) or courses for lifelong learning or personal enrichment (15 %).

Mr Gove said that as under performing schools started to turn around, they often focussed on improving English and maths and at the same time «relied» on a lot of vocational courses.

The Vancity study says more financial literacy courses can help women bridge financial health gaps and it urges governments to diversify vocational interests among girls and women, while companies are encouraged to develop and stick with equal pay policies.

The Bar Standards Board (BSB) says of the BVC that «vocational training seeks to teach different skills from an academic course.