As in other European countries, Finland merged specialist academic and vocational schools into comprehensive ones in the 1970s.
Members include pre-schools, primary, secondary and vocational schools to teacher training institutions.
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From vocational schools to liberal arts schools to HBCU schools, America has the full spectrum when it comes to tailored educational institutions.
He also said Malaysia planned to increase the number of technical and vocational schools to widen the pool of skilled and semi-skilled workers.
The government's regulatory reach--and its subsidies--should extend only to vocational schools.
Access to vocational schools that help them develop proficiency in a trade would give them another option and actually make them more competitive in the workplace.
Mr Green will visit mainstream secondary schools and specialist vocational schools and will see how vocational studies are integrated with academic skills and the demands of industry.
The Network comprises some 9, 500 educational institutions, ranging from public and private pre-schools, primary, secondary and vocational schools to teacher training institutes, in rural or urban settings.
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Looking into vocational schools that offer more specific job training at a much lower cost can get you started in the workforce years before your college counterparts.
Maybe more kids need to attend community or vocational schools.
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Over the past decade, ultra-Orthodox women have matriculated en masse in vocational schools that have trained them in hi-tech and other marketable professions and so enabled them to raise their families out of poverty.
As a rule, these stories will not feature visits to vocational training schools that are educating poor people out of poverty.
The significance of this is that after two years of concern about vocational qualifications in schools, this is the first time we have had a positive story about vocational education.
That meant better vocational training in schools - but also a change in attitude from business.
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Last week a government-appointed working group on education for 14 to 19 year olds in England recommended more vocational training in schools.
He said many schools offer vocational courses for students who are not going to achieve five GCSEs.
There will also be greater provision for vocational training in secondary schools, which she said would enable 200, 000 young people to acquire technical and craft skills.
Looking at applicants through a narrow vocational lens may deter schools from accepting riskier candidates, such as entrepreneurs or career-switchers, in favor of more sure things, such as aspiring management consultants, Mr. Richmond said.
To address this challenge, a three-day International Conference on "Integration of Academic Courses with Vocational Education in Secondary Schools" was organized jointly on 17-19 February in New Delhi by UNESCO, the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) and the Commonwealth of Learning.
But fewer high schools offer comprehensive vocational education anymore.
"We hope that, in time, academies will bring benefits to partner independent schools by providing new vocational options, sports and special educational needs provision, " he wrote.
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The group will look at vocational education and careers advice in schools and how they prepare young people for employment with the skills required for their region.
Ms Norrington envisages that some students would study different parts of the diploma - academic and vocational - at a variety of schools and colleges in their area, to ensure they get the best choice.
It may be that the more the concept of apprenticeship and the concept of a rigorous vocational approach is incorporated in the high schools so the kids can actually see a direct connection to what they're learning and a potential career, they're less likely to drop out and we're going to see more success.
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.
Professor Alison Wolf, who authored a government-commissioned review of vocational courses published earlier this year, said schools had been "under enormous pressure to pile up league table points".
Where once government-run schools were seen as a means to provide the children of indigent families with education and vocational training (as well as to assimilate immigrant families), such tax-funded schools soon became the norm, with many people unable to remember or imagine alternatives.
The two new schools will place a larger emphasis on vocational courses.
Instead of these for-profit diploma mills, we should focus on making vocational training a more integral part of our high schools and community colleges.
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