Doctor, dentist, swimming lessons, vocational therapy, tutoring, ballet, even a pair of shoes without buckles or laces — every part of Sadie's life, it sometimes seemed, plunged Ms. Crown into a lonely quest.
She could take advantage of Center Point's G.E.D. tutoring and vocational training.
When the exasperated tutor at her vocational college asks Dounia what she wants (shortly before kicking her out) she mimes Lil Wayne skimming banknotes off the top of a pile: "Money, money, money!" Along with her good-natured best buddy, Maimouna (Déborah Lukumuena), Dounia sets about getting it, forcing her way into the employ of Rebecca, the formidable neighbourhood drug dealer.
With a planned staff ratio of one adult to five children, she hopes to provide tutoring, counseling and vocational skills as well as a warm home.
So far, though, most online education focusses on vocational courses, test preparation, or supplemental tutoring.
Employers consistently value the ability to think above skills that can be learned on the job, and universities that accept students with vocational qualifications do so only after admissions tutors have reassured themselves that the young person in front of them is no dullard.
The study was conducted in a polytechnic in Singapore and involved 762 tutors delivering more than 130 different courses from a broad range of vocational diplomas including diplomas in Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical Electronics ,Healthcare Administration, and Health Management and Promotion.
This study aims to understand how the power of learning to learn is offered and promoted in the context of vocational training, especially in the practices of trainer of trainers and how they star in the figure of tutor agent and metacognitive.
But many tutors have already said that they would be unlikely to accept students sporting the diploma.Or perhaps vocational qualifications are every bit as challenging and valuable as academic ones just not as preparation for a degree.
