Sentences with phrase «strong vocational education»
The lack of a strong vocational education at the moment means that many pupils are poorly served, he says, as not all children are suited to a narrowly academic approach.
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We will create more good jobs and build a stronger and more balanced recovery by devolving economic power to Britain's towns and cities, boosting vocational education, getting young people into work, cutting business rates, introducing a British Investment Bank and increasing house building to at least 200,000 a year.
Washington — The ranking Republican member of the House Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education has taken strong exception to a Bush Administration plan to spend $ 6 million to audit schools as a way of verifying that they have not overestimated the number of school lunches they serve.
As debate over the reauthorization of federal vocational - education programs began in the Senate last month, groups representing state education agencies were lobbying to preserve a strong state role they say is threatened in the House version of the bill.
«It allows us to spotlight the integrated approach that blends strong academics with expanded vocational and technical education,» said Rep. Frank Riggs, R - Calif., the chairman of the House subcommittee that held a hearing last week at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science...
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.»
This brief from Achieve highlights how Massachusetts promotes strong career - focused programming both in the career / vocational technical school system and in the education system more broadly.
We might blame the schools for not taking a more balanced approach to education, stressing vocational education alongside a strong liberal arts education that includes real science and math.
We need to consider «success» more broadly, as this term can have many different meanings including but not limited to improved confidence, a stronger sense of identity, gaining employment, improved engagement with the broader community, expanded learning capacity, course completion, entry into a vocational or higher education program, and of course completion of a vocational or higher education program.