Vocational teachers gave higher importance scores than pre-vocational teachers, possibly due to the pressure they experience to improve the quality of their assessments.
The study showed the importance of vocational teachers' participation in their former occupational practice to maintain their vocational skill and competence, but it also found that there were various constraints to such participation.
That we have a low-pay, low-skilled economy is the fault of exploitative employment practices and a political class that for years has neglected the importance of vocational education – not the working people who suffer because of it.
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, welcomed the NTS, but on Ebacc expansion she urged the government to acknowledge the importance of vocational subjects as well as academic ones.
This theme illustrates the importance of vocational skills that the teachers need to have and to demonstrate for the students.
Table 3 presents the mean and SD values for the same 19 items concerning their assessed importance in vocational education teachers' work.
As he put it in an address to a joint session of Congress, "We expect all our children not only to graduate from high school but to graduate from college and get a good-paying job". Although I applaud the president's strong commitment to higher education, he is seriously neglecting the importance of vocational training in school.
At Comoro Youth Centre, back in Dili, Jackie was shown the importance of vocational youth training and observed lessons in life skills, English and electronics.
Back in Dili, at the Comoro Youth Centre, Mr. Chan was shown the importance of vocational youth training and observed lessons in life skills, English and electronics.
Similarly, post-conflict transitional justice processes must work to promote opportunities for adolescents to finish schooling while recognizing the importance of vocational training, as many young people are drawn into conflict for reasons of poverty and lack of social, economic and political opportunity.
Vocational and multipurpose high schools also have grown in importance.
