Sentence examples for vocational paths from inspiring English sources

"Schools focus on maths and literacy and that's hugely important … but they have put vocational paths to one side.

As Atul Gawande writes, the seventy per cent of Americans who lack a college degree have been forsaken.* That's because we've created a college-for-all culture, where alternatives to "professional" work are not respected or encouraged, instead of supporting programs that would give high schoolers vocational paths strategically aligned with both evolving and steady workforce needs.

It also delayed the choice between academic or vocational paths for two years, until the age of 16.

The NASUWT teaching union has argued that technical colleges will increase the segregation between academic and vocational paths, because pupils will physically be in different schools.

The titans weighed in on topics like what it takes to be a stratospherically wealthy entrepreneur, what other vocational paths they might have chosen, how much they read, and if an M.B.A. is worth the paper it's printed on.

The talented who want a vocational path to higher skills are practically shut out the system.

"These measures have broken down the segregation between children set on academic paths and those on a vocational path.

However, the vocational path is not a panacea and there are a few significant issues that need to be addressed.

Instead, the vocational path, which includes apprenticeships and on-the-job training, can open doors to an endless array of careers.

First, we need to make the distinction between soft vocational subjects and rigorous, high-quality courses that both equip young people with the skills employers demand and offer a direct vocational path to senior management.

But as Angela Hartnett points out, taking chefs out of their kitchens and onto the telly has given profile to an industry previously sneered at as an inferior vocational path.