There are three main types of secondary schools in Beijing: general middle schools, normal schools, and vocational and technical schools.
For four decades after 1950, Chinese kindergarten teachers had been trained mainly in the normal school, a vocational school that admitted graduates from the junior middle school.
In the recent decade, the older Chinese system of kindergarten teacher education has been transformed to a system from 3 tiers (vocational normal school, junior college, and 4-year college) to 2 tiers (junior college and 4-year college).
Vocational teachers may not always work full-time as teachers, although this is the normal condition for Swedish vocational teachers.
There were three parallel types of secondary education: the academic middle school, the normal school, and the vocational school.
First, the adolescent's educational level was assessed in three categories: 1) normal high school attainment, 2) vocational school or apprenticeship and 3) out of school.
Some normal schools have become 3-year vocational colleges while others have been incorporated into nearby teachers colleges or normal universities that offer bachelor degrees.
Incorporation of the findings described above resulted in a work-directed intervention that encompasses: 1) 4 meetings of 15 minutes each will be held at the hospital as part of the normal consulting hour to start early vocational rehabilitation.
UNICEF and partners are fighting against the psychological and physical risks that go along with work in the mines so that these children can return to a normal cycle of childhood, meaning school or vocational training, a family life and the continuation of a normal adult life".
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff was created (1972) from Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical and Normal College (1873), and the city has a vocational technical school.
