Professor Alison Wolf, author of the government's review into vocational education, said the only sensible approach is to get a "broad-based education" equipped with skills and qualifications that employers recognize.

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Some employers offer financial education and planning around specific life events, either through providers who specialize in these events, such as College Coach, which helps parents with the college planning process, or through broad-based financial education programs that deliver workshops and counseling around these events as part of a financial education and planning benefit.

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In an ideal Republic, every American would get a broad-based, four-year, liberal arts education rooted in great books shared inquiry, as offered at schools like my graduate alma mater of St.

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Gross domestic product spending on health care is concentrated on medical areas, not on broad-based interventions that will improve things over time, such as improved social services, housing, education, parks and recreation, and safer, cleaner environments.

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