He said many schools offer vocational courses for students who are not going to achieve five GCSEs.
The advantage of college is that it usually offers a wider range of options, particularly vocational courses.
They need to give more young people the chance to study and progress through rigorous vocational courses.
Plans to raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges in England have been announced.
They made it possible for students to take AP classes or vocational courses.
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The vocational courses they are taking have limited value in the jobs market.
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said young people and employers wanted high quality vocational courses that had real standing.
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The review says vocational courses should give pupils a general introduction to an industry, rather than training them for a specific job.
The two new schools will place a larger emphasis on vocational courses.
Some students benefited from "very well organised" vocational courses, it added.
Education Secretary Michael Gove says he aims eventually to rework the equivalent scores given to vocational courses, with some still be considered to be worth at least one GCSE.
Thousands of vocational courses are to be excluded from school league tables in England because the government says under-performing schools are relying on subjects of "little academic worth".
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".
However, I always remember him stressing to take vocational courses.
The university sector has rejected previous criticisms of such specialised vocational courses, arguing that areas such as tourism and leisure are major employers and significant aspects of the national economy.
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Mr Hancock said the government was "reforming apprenticeships, introducing traineeships and overhauling the system to recognise only high quality vocational courses that lead directly to a skilled trade or profession".
In some cases, more vocational courses are offered to learners during their basic and middle education, such as courses in the following sectors, Filing and Office Clerking, Accounting, Beauty and Make-up and Computer Maintenance.
Bob Brenton who has been an inmate at Maidstone for the past year said staff do their best but there was not enough funding available to help prisoners take vocational courses that will help with rehabilitation.
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Labour's Stephen Twigg said that he supported the "concept of an A Bacc", but said that it should have a range of subjects including computing and engineering and should work alongside their proposed "Tech Bacc" for vocational courses.
The authors draw on the 2011 Wolf review which called for a radical shake-up of vocational education, saying that too many vocational courses had little or no labour market value and would not lead to university or a job.
There is indeed a crying need for vocational courses that satisfy employers, ensure students reach a decent standard in English and maths, and provide practically minded youngsters with the routes into work that have long been lacking in British education.
Under the current rules, the number of vocational equivalent courses has expanded from 15, 000 in 2004 to 575, 000 in 2010.
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It was agreed that the Conference advanced understanding on TVET policies and strategies for integrating academic courses with vocational education through equivalency.
A-levels, combining science, language and humanities courses with vocational and academic variations.
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.
Some new universities merely recycle old poly courses designed for vocational qualification.
The composition of course taking within a specific vocational curriculum also shifted away from courses that were part of an organized sequence and toward specialty courses within various fields.
Local vocational colleges are to be allowed to teach degree courses, with the exams set by universities.
Still, students pursuing vocational degrees are almost always required to take some liberal-arts courses.
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