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vocational education

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noun

  1. educational training that provides practical experience in a particular occupational field, as agriculture, home economics, or industry.


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When we opened the floor, the questions were about vocational education, social media bans, early-childhood education and other substantive issues.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

It also highlighted various reforms, including vocational education programmes, a digital university for distance learning, and improved healthcare through an online clinic.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025

In the end, wrote Burger, the track record of the Amish in maintaining alternative modes of informal vocational education was a showing “that probably few other religious groups or sects could make.”

From Slate • Jul. 1, 2025

“Factory jobs are often associated with the ‘three D’s’ — dirty, dangerous and demeaning,” said Minhua Ling, an associate professor specializing in China’s vocational education system at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2023

I do not believe that specialized vocational education should ever be introduced at the expense of thorough training in the subjects that already hold their place in the curriculum.

From Craftsmanship in Teaching by Bagley, William Chandler

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