Sentence examples for more practical skills from inspiring English sources

But their main job was to train those westbound pioneers in more practical skills, such as mining, engineering and farming.

Martin Narey, who advises Michael Gove on children's social care, has called for trainees to be taught more practical skills and for courses to have tighter minimum entry standards, after being asked to look into initial social work training by the government.

It's time for some more practical skills.

While I don't believe in regrets, looking back... it sure would have been nice to graduate high school or college with some more practical skills to utilize as I stepped into adulthood.

Young people recognised that the more practical skills and knowledge they possessed about epilepsy the more independent they could become [ 42].

Ms. Arroyo, 76, pursued opera against her mother's urgings to find a more practical skill.

I went to school, learned to work on diesel engines, that way I can have a more practical skill, something for my future, I've never really wanted to be an artist.

Being able to read poetry is great but conversations are a much more practical skill, you know?

In addition to appealing to "all manner of seekers and lost boys, wild girls and pagan sprites," and those misguided souls who would teach them more practical social skills, the region also attracts a murderer who kills two students and makes the deaths look like a double suicide.

More practical writing skills lessons are needed say inspectors.

You can teach a child more practical STEM skills with other low-cost hands-on activities.