The chancellor also told MPs that the government aimed to create "new university technical colleges" and boost apprenticeship programmes.
He added that employers were helping shape the curriculum in the government's new studio schools and university technical colleges.
His dad had a successful career running technical colleges in Ohio, where he specialized in turning around schools that had lost accreditation.
It is one of about 30 engineering and science academies which are expected to open within the next two years, according to the University Technical Colleges body.
Politicians from both main coalitions repeat the numbers with pride: over 1.1m young people now study in universities or technical colleges, up from just 200, 000 in 1990.
Others, such as awful labour relations, poor management, or inadequate schools and technical colleges, are more plausible, but none seems bad enough to take all the blame.
President Obama and former Governor Romney have both mentioned technical colleges and trade schools often as logical places to improve the labor force and stimulate the economy.
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Mr Gove said he had given the go-ahead for 13 new university technical colleges (UTCs) in Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Burnley, Bedfordshire, Daventry, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, Sheffield, Southwark, Wigan and Silverstone race track.
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Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, warned that the government's promotion of university technical colleges could push young people into "irrevocable" choices at the age of 14.
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.
Eastern Europe, meanwhile, has a tradition of heavy subsidies to education, a wealth of grads from technical schools and colleges and a paucity of jobs.
TAFEs (Technical and Further Education colleges) places where, he says, people go to learn party management and belly-dancing, whereas the number of places for would-be car engineers has been cut.
We are also providing guidance and technical assistance to help colleges and universities fully comply with the legal requirements to use emerging technology that is accessible to all students in the classroom.
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During the chat, he addressed a wide variety of topics, including the role Income Based Repayment (IBR) plans can play in helping former students manage their debt, the importance of higher education, from four-year universities to community colleges and technical and vocational training, and the vital role of public education.
Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high-school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
Despite its 1.6 million schools, 500 universities, 25, 000 colleges and 7, 000 technical institutes, far too few employable Indians are graduating from its education system.
Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
Technical degree holders from the state's community colleges often earn more their first year out than those who studied the same field at a four-year university.
Phoenix's universities are doing well, and its community colleges, which provide two-year technical courses that are the vital boost for lifting unskilled immigrants into higher job brackets, are the country's best.
And I am particularly thrilled that this bill invests in community colleges across our country so that more students can gain the knowledge and technical job skills that they need to compete and succeed.
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