Traditional higher education has historically done a lackluster job of offering vocationally-oriented education programs and meeting the needs of non-traditional students.
Proponents of the rule argue that gainful employment will reduce instances of fraud and abuse of the federal loan programs, suggesting that colleges that offer career-oriented education and happen to do so for a profit are the only egregious transgressors in the postsecondary education sector.
Google and Mozilla have code education programs too, oriented at many different age groups, including educators.
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Building the capacity for such future-oriented action is a key task of education.
Despite recent efforts by the government and the private sector to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM-oriented disciplines, the gap between those pursuing STEM education in the U.S relative to other countries shows no signs of closing.
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Where educational or training programs are designed to provide students with professional experience in the furtherance of their education, and the training is academically oriented for the benefit of the students, the students will not be considered employees of the institution to which they are assigned, provided the six criteria are met.
The region's nimbler, more market-oriented colleges have been helped by the new practice of dividing education into chunks (bachelor's and master's degrees, for a start), with work sandwiched in between.
One unfortunate trend with the growth of higher education has been an increasing emphasis on exam and grades oriented learning, fueled by the proliferation of competitive entrance exams for science, engineering, medicine, law, etc. and tutorial centres who compete to prepare the students for these exams.
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The new Administration's incoming Education Secretary, Rod Paige, sounds like a results-oriented, no-excuses-accepted individual.
What we need is an ecosystem characterized by new approaches to education that will re-kindle the desire to pursue STEM-oriented disciplines.
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Through its oriented projects and partnerships, UNESCO is working to promote the importance of technical and vocational education in providing job opportunities and reducing poverty in Iraq.
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