Higher vocational education is a new post-secondary education form which leads directly to employment and corresponds to the needs of the labour market.
To make India more competitive, though, the biggest gains in education must come after school: in vocational and higher education.
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Of relevance is the committee that drafted the Palestinian national Green paper on Science, Technology and Innovations (Higher Council of Vocational and Technical Education, Accreditation and Quality assurance Commission, and Quality improvement Fund).
''We need vocational training much more than higher education.
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Noting the paradox of high unemployment and skills shortages, South Africa's Minister for Higher Education and Training described initiatives to better align skills with needs, improve the quality of technical and vocational education and training and increase opportunities to do apprenticeships.
Further, limiting or eliminating inmate programs such as drug treatment and vocational education would, in fact, lead to higher costs to taxpayers and communities in the long run as the lack of such inmate re-entry training makes it less likely that released inmates will be successful at reintegration into society upon their release.
That is true of a third of secondary schools and of the technical and vocational colleges attended by two-thirds of students in higher education.
There is also along with the marketisation of higher education there's a greater and greater emphasis on vocational and pre-career university courses and the advertising and marketing of vocational and pre-career - accounting, law, economics, finance, engineering, applied sciences - these are becoming very, very popular, undergraduate curricula in these areas are expanding dramatically, a faculty who are teaching in these areas are paid better and better.
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The "arbitrary" higher education student target was encouraging more young people to "dismiss the vocational route".
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Twelve years of compulsory education, increased enrollment in institutions of higher learning, and more vocational training will produce a generation of workers who cannot possibly be employed by the government.
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During the chat, he addressed a wide variety of topics, including the role Income Based Repayment (IBR) plans can play in helping former students manage their debt, the importance of higher education, from four-year universities to community colleges and technical and vocational training, and the vital role of public education.
It reflects the contemporary intellectual preference in higher education for integrating the theory and practice of a discipline, and for reducing the divisions between vocational and academic qualifications.
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