Rural households are feeling the pinch too, with children pulled out of school to work on family land.
Countries differ in their approach to organizing the transition from school to work.
Countries where apprenticeship is common are also those where the transition from school to work is easiest, he says.
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Most of the credit goes to my Dad, the seventh grade dropout who quit school to work at the sawmill.
His supporters included Bill and Hillary Clinton, who took time off from their studies at Yale Law School to work on his campaign.
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But wait, getting teenagers that are juniors in high school to work in the school and get paid for it might not be a bad idea.
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The 2012 GMR on TVET will address the challenge of making the transition from school to work, including organizing a major conference in China in 2012.
No slouch academically, Harrison has degrees in International Relations and Conflict Resolution from Syracuse University, walking away from an opportunity fresh out of school to work with the Carter Center (President Carter even created a division for her).
In the late nineteen-nineties, she began travelling throughout Minnesota, delivering lectures in churches, and writing pamphlets, on the perils of a federal education law known as School to Work, which supported vocational training, and a Minnesota education law known as Profile of Learning, which set state education standards.
In 1977, aged 15, he dropped out of school to work full-time on the four sewing machines he had bought with his savings. (He still speaks only Arabic.) By the time Benetton came to Syria to scout for a franchisee in the mid-1990s, Mr Samha owned a factory exporting clothes to Europe.
Harry pushes Noel to keep fighting, to go to school, to work hard.
The children started the task, but then went off to school or to work in the fields, and the housewife brought in more buckets.
There were rides to school and commutes to work, early flights and familiar routines, quick hugs and quiet moments.
What we also did, partly because we were in a recessionary situation and so more people were having to go back to school as opposed to work, what we also did was, for example, say that you can get Pell Grants for summer school.
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Wong had grown up in the same district, one of the poorest in Hong Kong, and had also dropped out of school to find work.
One, the Digital Youth Network, has for the past five years encouraged groups of about 60 middle school students to work on making musical instruments and videos as a means to improving literacy and numeracy.
And while the rest of the party limited itself to discussing petty matters such as health care or the federal budget, Newt's plans ranged from getting school kids to work as janitors to building mines on the moon.
Moreover, in order to facilitate the school-to-work transition of young female graduates there is an urgent need to mainstream this issue in the national development strategy on building the capacity of human capital in the country, and to integrate it in all plans of action and social and economic policies on youth empowerment.
Kids go back to school, vacationers return to work and the pace picks up at the office.
Though she eventually sold the gym to go back to school, she continues to work out and maintain her healthy weight.
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Families get paid to send their children to school, instead of to work in the fields, but only so long as the children actually attend.
As soon as they finish high school or as soon as I finish grammar school, I have to work through high school and sometimes not even go to college.
To bring back law and order, one that doesn't involve torture and everything else that Saddam Hussein did but allows them the freedom to go to school, to go to work, to go out at night.
Code Red sirens wailed in Sderot shortly after the 7 a.m. rocket attack, forcing the town residents who were on their way to work or school to run to bomb shelters.
Code Red alarm sirens wailed in Sderot at about 7:30 a.m. local time warning of incoming rockets and forcing the town residents who were on their way to work or school to take cover.
Part of this increased satisfaction is derived from employees being able to time shift events in their days attend to a child after school and defer work to a time of day that is less family-critical.
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It scares me, just a little, to send them off to work or school, to say goodbye and wave, to hug.
Like many of the other bridges on the Federal Highway Administration's list of structures that need to be monitored, inspected, and repaired, thousands of people rely on this bridge to get to work and school and to deliver goods every day.
Growing up, my dream was to be a high school English teacher and to work in inner city schools to teach young people how to express their lives, their challenges and aspirations through writing.
Schuchat reiterated that anyone with a flu-like illness should not be sent to school, travel or go to work, where they could expose others.
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