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Britain should reject the "snobbery" that says the only route to social mobility runs through a university education, Ed Miliband will say on Monday. In a speech to a Sutton Trust conference in London, on the eve of the launch of the government ...
May 20, 2012 at 23:19 | Source: The Guardian
VICTORIA'S cuts in subsidies to most vocational training courses means the state government is putting little value on courses that don t fill the specific skill needs of the economy and is a potential warning signal for the future of higher education ...
May 27, 2012 at 14:21 | Source: The Australian
... subjects in Class 12 cannot write the BBS entrance test as the university has decided not to include vocational courses in the best four. With vocational electives offered by Central Board of Secondary Education not finding acceptance in ...
May 22, 2012 at 10:23 | Source: Hindustan Times
This equates to around 60,000 pupils. He said they “switch off” from mainstream schooling at the age of 14, but complained that his efforts to introduce more vocational courses have been met with obfuscation by the education establishment. The ...
May 23, 2012 at 04:53 | Source: Daily Telegraph
Instead, students will have the opportunity to enroll in vocational courses taught by Athens Technical College teachers at the school district’s year-old Athens Community Career Academy, and get both high school and college credit. Students ...
May 20, 2012 at 01:36 | Source: Athens Banner-Herald
Weeks after announcing huge cuts to vocational education, the state government has lashed out at organisations conducting ''suspicious'' schemes to lure people into courses. In one recent case, students were offered free laptops or $500 Visa debit cards if ...
May 26, 2012 at 16:45 | Source: The Age
Fast-forward to the present, and thousands of teachers could lose their jobs after the Baillieu government cut funding to about 80 per cent of vocational courses in a bid to put the sector ''on a sustainable footing''. The $290 million in funding cuts mean ...
May 27, 2012 at 04:27 | Source: The Canberra Times
The decision to establish a vocational college, which was initiated by former Education Minister Louis Galea, has reaped dividends to thousands of students who have completed courses provided by the 10 institutes at Mcast, and to Maltese society in general.
May 27, 2012 at 07:19 | Source: Times of Malta
King noted that this was a significant increase from last year’s figures, especially in the postgraduate and technical and vocational courses. “The number of people inquiring have grown sharply—particularly in technical and vocational programs ...
May 24, 2012 at 15:15 | Source: Global Nation
Schools have dropped almost all vocational courses from their system. It has become the fashion that every graduating student is expected to go to college whether he is fit or not. Vocational education has fallen out of favor. In fact many ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:52 | Source: Saipan Tribune