{"id":19692,"date":"2019-08-14T11:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2019-08-14T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T11:30:22","slug":"vocational-education-uk-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/vocational-education-uk-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocational education graduates in the United Kingdom to get more recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The newly appointed UK Secretary of State for Education, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/people\/gavin-williamson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Gavin Williamson<\/b><\/a><b>, graduates from vocational programs across the country, will be better recognized for their achievements.<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This pledge from the Secretary comes just as educational institutions released this year\u2019s results for vocational training programs.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vocational education in the country is gaining more recognition even from the media. <\/span><b>One of the most prominent media outlets, the BBC, is preparing a special program dedicated to showcasing the achievements of vocational education graduates.<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tomorrow across <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCNews<\/a> I\u2019ll be chatting about vocational qualifications. It\u2019s a day I\u2019ve created in conjunction with @BTECStudents <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cityandguilds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@cityandguilds<\/a> et al to raise profile of these brill skilled people. I\u2019ll be on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCBreakfast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCBreakfast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbc5live?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@bbc5live<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadio4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCRadio4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VocationalCelebrational?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VocationalCelebrational<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steph McGovern (@StephLunch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephLunch\/status\/1161360568013508608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vocational education around the world<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Educational systems around the world are beginning to recognize the importance of quality vocational training, as the labor market is signaling for lack of trained and skilled professionals.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent example of the emphasis put on vocational education by governments is a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/vocational-education-for-strengthening-the-sino-german-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">joint initiative<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> between Germany and China, which aims to boost exchange opportunities for students in vocational training between the two countries.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>According to Mr. Williamson, graduates from vocational institutions deserve just as much praise and recognition, as students achieving their A-levels degrees. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why one of his primary goals will be to celebrate and announce the achievements of graduates in vocational training.<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Additionally, the Secretary announced that he would be looking into ways to work directly with business representatives to create more opportunities for graduates to enter apprenticeship programs.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> If this happens, many graduate students will be able to get hands-on training in a field that interests them.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr. Williamson has pledged to put vocational education as a priority throughout his mandate, and this will hopefully have a positive effect on programs across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly appointed UK Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, graduates from vocational programs across the country, will be better recognized for their achievements. This pledge from the Secretary comes just as educational institutions released this year\u2019s results for vocational training programs.\u00a0 Vocational education in the country is gaining more recognition even from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[604,1457,1548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}