Sentences with phrase «technical education in this country»

The ceremony which was under the theme: Leveraging technical education for nation building, witnessed education stakeholders speak to and suggest solutions to the many challenges confronting technical education in the country.

Not exact matches

But just as equal opportunities within a society are unlikely to become reality without general access to high quality education, so free trade will not in practice be generally accepted, especially among the poorer countries, until the huge discrepancies between nations in technical and commercial skills are diminished.

At 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, The Manhattan Institute will host a conference on career and technical education schools in New York City and across the country.

The Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS) Secretariat has placed 329,416 out of the 439,222 candidates who wrote this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) in senior high schools (SHSs) and technical institutes (TIs) in the country.

«For a long time, I've worried about the fact that in this country we're very good at saying academic education is good and for everybody, but we've never put sufficient emphasis on technical and vocational education,» she said.

He also revealed that he was Chairing a Committee tasked to see to the restructuring of technical and vocational education in the country.

This forms part of the government's strategy for Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the country to help reduce the alarming unemployment rate in the country.

«For many in The Bronx, and in fact across the country, the «America's College Promise» and the «American Technical Training Fund» proposals would be of great assistance for future college students saving money, especially as the cost of higher education continues to skyrocket — both at public institutions as well as private colleges and universities.

«The challenge confronting technical vocational education in our country is not an issue of affordability.

His research interests include teacher labor markets, education finance, student achievement in international exams, market - based reforms in education, vocational and technical education and school - based management in developing countries.

Minister Vestager and I just signed an agreement to expand exchanges between our countries in vocational - technical education.

Currently, Marr is on a two - year rotation in Washington, D.C., as the education team leader for Asia and the Middle East, for which she provides technical assistance for the educational programs in 23 countries including two of USAID's largest, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In pockets around the country, a retooling of classes in career and technical education aims to give students job training, exposure to new technologies, and windows into different careerIn pockets around the country, a retooling of classes in career and technical education aims to give students job training, exposure to new technologies, and windows into different careerin career and technical education aims to give students job training, exposure to new technologies, and windows into different careers.

«High - quality technical and further education is not only vital in opening up doors to young people in some of the hardest to reach areas of the country, it also helps local businesses get the skilled workforce they need to drive up the productivity and economic growth that our economy needs.

LC Energy firmly believes that extending access to approved and accredited technical education and skills training in renewable energy is key to addressing this, and to reducing the country's reliance on fossil fuels.

Any student 15 and 1/2 years or older who attends high school in Baraga, Houghton, or Keweenaw County may attend Career & Technical Education classes offered by the Copper Country Intermediate School District.

Young men and women who are now in the traditional colleges, technical schools and apprenticeships that make up America's higher education will also be deported from the only country they have ever known, sent to places that they don't call home.

Less than a decade ago the majority of teacher education programs in the country offered stand - alone technology courses that focused primarily on technical skills and trouble - shooting strategies to prepare teachers to use technology (U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment [OTA] 1995; Willis & Mehlinger, 1996).

It goes on to welcome additional spending on technical education, but says that «investment in technical learning alone is not sufficient to reverse the impact of these cuts or to meet the country's skills needs».

More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title X funds to provide transportation services, educational services for which the child or youth meets the eligibility criteria, programs in vocational and technical education, school nutrition programs, and to prepare teachers to deal with the unique challenges the homeless student must confront to attain academic achievement.

 The Hon. Patrick Faber, the Minister of Education, noted recently:  «There are only three to four hundred trainees across the country that are full time and I know that it is improving but that is not the best bang for our buck.»  He went on to say:  «We need to highlight and trumpet the kind of work that is being done in the ITVETs [Institutes for Technical Vocational Education and Training] and CET -LCB- Centers for Employment Training] across the country, because the projects that are being done by these students are truly spectacular.»

He reached adulthood during the second world war, and, after a technical education at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, served in a camouflage battalion in Maryland and Tennessee before joining the allied forces in France — an extraordinary first taste of the country and its culture.