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The education in vocational school is free, and students from low-income families are eligible for a state student grant. The curriculum is primarily vocational, and the academic part of the curriculum is adapted to the needs of a given course. The vocational schools are mostly maintained by municipalities. [citation needed]
Vocational schools in the United States are traditionally two-year colleges which prepare students to enter the workforce after they receive an Associate degree. Students may also use courses as credit transferable to four-year universities. Programs often combine classroom lessons in theory with hands-on applications of the lessons students ...
SkillsUSA is a United States career and technical student organization serving more than 395,000 high school, college and middle school students and professional members enrolled in training programs in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health occupations.
The industrial education system evolved, after large-scale growth after World War I, into modern vocational education. This CTE (Career Technical Education) Historical Timeline illustrates the steps in the evolution: Vocational education was initiated with the passing of the Smith-Hughes Act in 1917, set up to reduce the reliance on foreign ...
National Council for Vocational Education and Training is an autonomous,non-statutory and regulatory body under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship for monitoring the institutions engaged in providing short term and long term educational training in vocational education and designing the basic standards required for operations of such institutions.
UEI College is a private for-profit career college with locations in the U.S. states of California, Washington, Arizona, and Georgia.It specializes in short-term technical and vocational education to prepare students for entry-level positions in industries such as healthcare, business, and skilled trades.
According to SCTE & VT, there are almost 124 private and 35 state government diploma colleges [1] in the Odisha state which include polytechnic, Diploma institutes & 637 ITI institutes, prevailing under this board, which produces skilled laborers & techno-entrepreneurial workforces for State SMEs industry.
Edexcel withdrew AVCE ICT in June 2006 but students were able to re-submit coursework until November 2006 and could re-sit exams until January 2007. The GNVQ is still currently available in two forms – Foundation and Intermediate levels – which both work up to the Advanced level. This was withdrawn in 2007.