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Three quarters of England's population should go to university or do an advanced apprenticeship by the age of 30, the government says.

Every town would have a technical school to train a generation of children as builders, plumbers and tradesmen under Tory plans announced by Michael Gove, the Shadow Schools Secretary.

It sought to identify models or programs of transition, establish a definition of successful transition, discover how models or programs are evaluated, and examine the impact of such transition programs, specifically those that aim to facilitate transition from an educational system to another educational system, to program completion, or to specific career-related employment for disadvantaged youth.

A Virginia inmate studying for his GED asked for a dictionary, explaining that "there's a lot of words I just don't know."

The hottest job areas from now to 2016 will be in health care, education, information technology and clean energy, a new report says. And though some require bachelor's degrees or higher, many call for an associate's degree and sometimes additional vocational training.

GALVESTON — Galveston College hopes to close the gap between the island’s job-seekers and its industrial employers by offering technical training.

8.11.09 - For the first time, students will learn about maintaining and repairing diesel engine , hydraulics and electrical components on location instead of at a high-school campus.

Leaders of the longstanding effort to create a new comprehensive vocational school for the region are applauding one state funding commitment while they anxiously await word on another.

8.3.09 - At the National Guard's Freestate Challenge Academy, rigid regulations and a spartan dress code are enforced by no-nonsense drill instructors. The program is designed for at-risk students from D.C. and Maryland who have lost their way. 

7.29.09 - There will also be work placements for non-graduates - including 10,000 places for 18 to 21-year-olds who have not been to university.

New apprenticeships in NHS and social care will be in place by March 2010The number of NHS apprenticeships is set to treble to more than 5,000 after the government announced £25m

Utica -- Summer break hasn't stopped LoTia Colbert and Nicholas Massengale from learning a few things. But instead of reading, writing and 'rithmetic, the teens are getting lessons in what it takes to land and keep a job

Tired of closing British factories because of a lack of qualified workers, Andrew Hall, a former industrialist, became head of the Government's national curriculum watchdog a week ago

And the kind of good-paying jobs that used to be present at construction sites become like defibrillator paddles in an emergency room. There's no shortage of out-for-the-count bodies who want their turn at those paddles.