The need is to create, for pupils from 14 onwards, a technical stream – the word "vocational", now irrevocably associated with low status, should be banished – based on making, doing, designing and problem solving.
Although "the income stream is fine, the technical stream is the hard one: keeping the production going, keeping the science current," and dealing with such problems as parts, procurement, and obsolescence.
An evolution of the socio-technical stream leads to works such as that of de Souza et al. [19] discuss awareness maintenance mechanisms.
A possible limitation is that this study was confined to the students from a technical university and it may not give the generalised findings for students from the non-technical streams.
Current evidence suggests returns are increasing over time and tend to be higher for: females as opposed to males; degree or credential holders as opposed to dropouts; general academic streams compared to technical vocational streams; and professional fields such as engineering, medicine, business, and sciences as opposed to social sciences and humanities and especially fields like fine arts.
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In Singapore, tracking begins at Grade 7 based upon the students' academic performance in the national examinations taken at the end of Grade 6. Depending on the scores, students are tracked into Express, Normal Academic (NA), and Normal Technical (NT) streams.
Big Data technology is still young, there are many technical problems in stream computing, parallel computing, Big Data architecture, Big Data model, and software systems that can support Big Data, etc should be investigated.
Table 2 outlines why retinopathy screening was considered a "quick win" proposal, in line with the criteria for survival in the policy stream: technical feasibility, alignment with dominant values, and acceptability in light of future constraints.
In the multistream analyses, we compared alerts produced by univariate models, which effectively assumed independence between the data streams, and multivariate models, which allowed for correlation between the data streams (Technical Appendix).
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