This can be a community college or a four-year school, vocational training or an apprenticeship.

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But the current social climate is for children to stay at school or in vocational training until 18.

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Someday, Sawo said, she hopes to offer foster care housing, primary and secondary school and a vocational training center for children and adults.

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He waited by the nearby Toyota dealership for word from his wife, who had enrolled at the school two months ago for vocational nursing training.

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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.

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Popular western books such as The Bookseller of Kabul and the Dressmaker of Khair Khana speak to the entrepreneurial spirit of the Afghan people, and later works such as The Beauty School of Kabul illustrate the value of vocational training for women provided by such groups.

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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.

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Furthermore, the secondary school system hardly provides learners with adequate vocational skills training opportunities.

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