Sentences with phrase «vocational education took»

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Professor Jane Naana Agyeman Opoku, Minister for Education challenged girls to take advantage of the programme to leverage their skills in the Technical and Vocational sectors to make them employable.

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.

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.

It was decided that «only after nine years of schooling would a decision be taken about what type of upper secondary education, academic or vocational, — would follow» (Jakubowski, Patrinos, Porta & Wiśniewski, 2010).

The appointment of the progressive Liberal, who replaced Christopher Pyne, will see the boost of Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector and will also see him take control of the government's $ 4.4 billion childcare reforms as they move out of social services and back into the education portfolio.

That figure is expected to go higher as commencement for many higher education and vocational education and training courses typically take place in March each year.

These involve recent LEA boundary changes that have not yet been incorporated into the Census database for LEAs (which usually takes two to three years), charter schools that are treated as separate LEAs under the laws of some states but are not in the Census LEA database (because they are not based on exclusive geographical boundaries), and some special purpose LEAs that provide particular educational services (such as vocational and technical education or education for certain students with disabilities) to multiple «regular» LEAs in certain states.

The paper concludes that while vocational education plays an important role for non-college graduates, policy should focus on encouraging depth rather than breadth in vocational course - taking.

Through most of the 20th century, college readiness and career readiness were more or less distinct, in part because what we now call career readiness was called job training and took the form of vocational education.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said he wanted to be sure that the vocational qualifications taken by 14 to 16 - year - olds genuinely lead to further education and are valued by employers.

You can take the deduction if you are a vocational, undergraduate, graduate or post-doctoral student, whether or not you received a student loan meant to cover the cost of education.

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.

Alice Barnard, chief executive of the Edge Foundation, which promotes vocational education, said: «The report makes a persuasive economic case for taking up a higher apprenticeship and studying for a degree sponsored by the employer.»

Because in the Netherlands many different trajectories can lead to higher education, it is possible that individuals with a similar amount of educational years differ in their level of education (e.g. senior secondary vocational and pre-university both take 12 years to achieve)[13].