Workforce Development

Brian Betts, principal of Shaw at Garnet-Patterson Middle School in Northwest, says during a two-week trial run of an experimental program in which students are paid to behave, attendance and punctuality improved. Grades did not.

VietNamNet Bridge - Apprenticeship is regarded as a door open for students who cannot enter universities or high schools, but in practice, hundreds of thousands of such students do not know what to learn to have a job.

Will the government this week restore lost evening-class places? It's looking extremely unlikely

Children need to be taught about entrepreneurship, but are schools really the place to do it? I yield to nobody in my admiration of the enterprise culture. When a friend visiting the Notting Hill Carnival recently lamented the explanation of being charged £3 to use a lavatory in a block of flats to escape the 50-strong queues for the free Portaloos, my response was: "Good for them."

Sometimes it's unclear which of Manuel Santos' classes are college prep and which are vocational. Last year, he took medical terminology, classified as vocational but heavy on the advanced vocabulary he'll need if he majors in pre-med in college.

Utah's Adult Education Program has come a long way since a 2005 audit found it was not meeting all federal requirements, according to a new audit of the program released Wednesday by Utah's legislative auditor.

By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER

FORT JACKSON, S.C. (AP) - Austin Swarner left high school to care for his mother while she fought a losing battle with cancer. Tony Brown wanted to begin supporting himself and left two classes shy of a diploma. Haelee Holden got tired of trying to make it through school while flipping burgers until 1 a.m.

Dressed in a hard hat and florescent safety vest, Norma McGinnis stood next to an unfinished highway bridge on the North Side last week, pointing to a truck snaking its way backwards over the

VietNamNet Bridge – The nation will face a serious shortage of human resources for socio-economic development, if no breakthrough is made in increasing both the quantity and quality of teachers for vocational training.

BY AMY HETZNER
Test takers must complete five tests to receive their GED certificate
Pregnant at 18, Telisa Haynes said she cried when she saw her classmates in caps and gowns, knowing she would not be joining them for graduation.

Starting Saturday, the first batch of teachers from vocational and technical institutes will get to "Know About Business," through a project designed to promote Yemeni-owned small businesses.

By YOAV GONEN
The city plans to do some tinkering with its trade schools. Mayor Bloomberg announced an overhaul of the city's vocational schools yesterday to make them more academically challenging

More than a year after the state tried to reform the Texas Youth Commission, many inmates in TYC prisons receive poor schooling from overwhelmed teachers plagued by badly designed programs, a new report claims.

By Gale Holland
Mayor Villaraigosa announces a program to train students in culinary arts and tourism while they complete high school. The goal is to prepare them for both a career and further college education.

More vocational qualifications are being taken by school-age children around the UK, a report claims. The report, for vocational pressure group Edge, also said the number of vocational qualifications had doubled between 2003 and 2007 to 3.25 million.