The government answer will be that it opened a raft of university technical colleges – schools for 14- to 19-year-olds that combine highly specialised vocational training with academic qualifications.
So it has been with the creation of university technical colleges – schools which offer vocational training in a range of professions such as engineering, healthcare, construction and business, alongside traditional GCSEs, and link their pupils to both apprenticeships and employment opportunities.
A grand Baptist church, big and ornamented enough to be talked of as Europe's Baptist cathedral; an observatory; a museum and art gallery: these are the bigger things the Coats' left behind, to add to the town hall financed by the Clarks and 100 other smaller contributions to civic life, such as parks, fountains, libraries, a technical college, school prizes and outings.
A total of 188 underperforming schools were academies, while 50 are council-run, 45 are foundation schools, 14 are voluntary-aided and the others include university technical colleges, studio schools and further education colleges for to 14- to 16-year-olds.
The other new types of academy which get a lot of attention – "free" schools, university technical colleges and studio schools – account for just 4% of the total.
Albany, a relatively isolated community of approximately 30,000 people in the south of Western Australia, is a regional centre with one major hospital, one technical college, 22 schools and approximately 1200 employers.
The government plans hundreds of university technical colleges and studio schools to encourage specialisation post-14, a craft-based stream of schooling first proposed in 1944 that never took off.
This is a model developing in the UK, particularly through the emergence of university technical colleges and studio schools.
Wuhan is dotted with technical colleges and trade schools, rather than the proliferation of research parks and new universities seen in so many other cities, winning it praise from manufacturers.
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Next door was a technical college and school run by the Hariri Foundation, which was established by the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was assassinated in a car bombing in February, 2005.
