Sentence examples for promoting vocational from inspiring English sources

The government has been promoting vocational qualifications to tackle skills shortages and has vowed to create 3m apprenticeships by the end of the decade.

"The last government presided over a pasteurised, homogenised, and bureaucratised hollowing-out of practical education," Mr Gove said, in a speech at the Edge, a London-based organisation promoting vocational training.

Policies need to ensure that non-university bound youth can easily obtain full-time work and not become unemployed, and this should be a policy priority over promoting vocational education and training.

The new system will not do enough to promote vocational education, he says.

It recommended federal grants to the states to promote vocational education, with particular focus on training vocational teachers.

The findings of the Douglas Commission were embraced by a diverse group of reformers who promoted vocational education at local, state, and national levels.

Other delegates agreed that this was an issue, but suggested employers and educators were culpable too, with many schools reluctant to promote vocational routes and job adverts routinely calling for degree-level education.

A separate survey by Edge, the independent education foundation which promotes vocational education, published today shows 47 per cent of GCSE candidates express "disinterest" in at least three of the subjects they study.

Speaking on a visit to India to promote vocational education, Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "It is essential that we realise the potential of the largely untapped resource that is our education exports.

So, China should pay more attention to the personnel training and actively promote vocational education, improve training system, update training knowledge in time, provide retraining for existing personnel, and build the human resources advantages in knowledge and skills.

Also, in June 1997 while in Liberia to coach the national team, he promoted vocational training schools where former child combatants and other war-affected youths can learn new skills.