This does not imply that vocational education is generally less valuable than general education—only that, in terms of literacy skill outcomes, it is not comparable to general education at the same level of education.
But the pathology of the public schools in the 1980's is not comparable to higher education today.
Never before have the Afghan people had comparable access to education, infrastructure and health care.
Troy Female Seminary, subsequently called (from 1895) Emma Willard School, American educational institution, established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that of college-educated young men.
The evaluation report, written by a team of five college and university scientists who visited the institute for several days last August, touches only lightly on that controversy, but does find that the institute's offerings are not comparable to other higher-education institutions.
White suburban schools still offer an excellent education, comparable to those in Singapore, which may have the best education system in the world.
Assuming that the prevalence of creationist belief among elementary school educators is comparable to that of the elementary education majors surveyed by Losh and Nzekwe (2010), it is likely that many of them are teaching creationist ideas or at least downplaying or omitting evolutionary ideas in their classrooms.
These women aren't trophy-wife types — they are comparable to him in age, education level, and professional status.
The new standards will make the cost of a Harvard education comparable to the charges at the nation's leading public universities.
By taking challenging courses and enrolling in an honors program, he contends, they can get an education comparable to that at the best universities anywhere.
State grammars were offering a free education comparable to that of the independent schools, and their pupils were mounting this new ladder of upward social mobility to claim their rightful places in the professions, the arts and the sciences.
