At the same time, we have expanded vocational training, particularly apprenticeships, which have reached two million.
As the historian Dominic Sandbrook has written, the report "called for federal assistance and public works in areas suffering from chronic unemployment, national standards of unemployment insurance, action to fight racial and other discrimination, a youth conservation corps, expanded vocational training and federal funding for retraining the jobless".
The Smith-Hughes Act succeeded in expanding vocational education throughout the country.
He won the election handily.To appeal to businesses, the new governor swiftly began trimming regulations and expanding vocational training in high schools.
Although the law helped to expand vocational courses and enrollment, it generally did not live up to the lofty aspirations of its supporters.
Like Mr Woodhead, ministers are keen to expand vocational training (though he thinks they are blurring the distinction between the vocational and academic); and, as Mr Woodhead wants, they are making a stab at introducing performance-related pay for teachers ("a pathetic stab", according to him).Still, Mr Woodhead is prepared to put other people's money where his mouth is.
Much of de Blasio's agenda is supported by almost all the candidates: expand vocational training, set up new business "hubs," build more affordable housing, review Bloomberg's school closures, create more bus and bike lanes, end (or radically reform) stop-and-frisk, and so on.
The president said he wants to ensure universal access to pre-school, and to expand vocational training in high school, and to set up a network of institutes promoting manufacturing and to create a tax credit for hiring the long-term unemployed, among other new schemes.
The president said he wants to ensure universal access to pre-school teaching, to expand vocational training in high school, to set up a network of institutes promoting manufacturing and to create a tax credit for hiring the long-term unemployed, among other new schemes.
Increasing emphasis was placed on improving and expanding vocational-technical, adult, and nonformal programs of education.
Located at 209 East 23rd Street, the school did not take its current name until 1956, when it added programs in art history and the humanities and expanded its vocational curriculum.
