Some also receive bonuses for finishing their courses in school or further education college.
The spark, though, came from Li Guanlu, president of the Yunnan Education College in Kunming.
Staff at Kent's largest further education college have held a half-day strike over plans to cut 145 jobs.
This arrangement between a private university and a further education college shows how an alternative model might operate.
In 2007, Barnfield was the first further education college to sponsor two underperforming secondary schools, create academies and form a federation.
This latest project marks its first partnership with a further education college - with the expectation of more to be announced later.
The sixth forms at four secondary schools in Merthyr Tydfil are to close with provision instead moving to a further education college.
This includes educational psychologists, doctors, further education college teachers and home tutors.
Papur Dre is a community newspaper working with Cwmni Da, a television production company and Coleg Menai, a further education college in Gwynedd.
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Obtaining a C-grade in GCSE English is a crucial benchmark required for pupils wanting to continue their studies at A-level or further education college.
Mr Manley will be teaching most of the theory himself, and working in partnership with a local further education college for such things as brickwork.
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Yang and the 18 others in the batch, aged between 15 and 16, all attend a special boarding school for minorities attached to the education college.
Like most parents from his hardscrabble background, he was simply happy that his son was getting a college education, as if a college education, of whatever kind, in whatever major, would magically do the kid some good.
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Those colleges who can go ahead with their projects are: Barnsley College, Bournville College, Furness College, Hartlepool College of Further Education, Kirklees College, Leyton Sixth Form College, Manchester College - Wythenshawe, North West Kent College, St Helens College, Sandwell College, South Thames College, Tresham Institute of Further and Higher Education, Corby, and West Cheshire College.
Three years later, she channeled her passion for education into College Track, an after-school program she founded to help low-income students get into college.
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And we've already made historic investments in education and college affordability.
It embraces the competitive grant programs based on the Race to the Top model and applies that to programs from early childhood education through college.
Take higher education: College tuitions are climbing at a 6% clip.
Educated workers, on average, earn more than workers with less education and college grads are much more likely to have jobs than those without college degrees.
During his first semester at Hendrix College, he started UnCollege, a website dedicated to providing resources for and ideas on how to get an education without college, and dropped out.
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The second area is for secondary education- college kids.
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The Student Credit Card Educative Initiative has poured a lot of time and effort into planning and organizing the evening, which is hoping to raise awareness to the lack of real credit card education for college students in America.
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He is a Consulting Editor for Research in Higher Education with recent publications appearing in the Journal of Higher Education, Teachers College Record, and Research in Higher Education.
And I think the President challenged all of America to, in his speech to Congress, to seek one year of post-high school education, whether it's vocational training or college education, to create a more educated workforce that can meet the growing demand for the jobs of the future.
The enlistees can potentially use their military training as a substitute for college education, though they will not earn as much as college graduates.
As Jayson Boyers argues over at the Huffington Post, competency-based education omits the social and relationship-based aspects of a college education, which often yield as much career benefit as classroom knowledge to those just entering the workforce.
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We greatly appreciate the increase in the Pell Grant, which allowed our neediest students to access a college education. (Applause.) It increased buying power as college costs continue to rise.
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Lecturers from the School of Education in the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education were trained during this project to provide in-service teacher training for primary school teachers.
Cambridge University has previously said reducing fees for island students would be discriminatory and Imperial College has said its decision had been based on the high cost of education at the college.
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