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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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These moves are part of a larger shift back to vocational education in the U.S., fueled by a desire among educators to get students started sooner on career paths that interest them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 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

Education Minister Jason Clare says each higher education institution will be given an individual limit, with the biggest cuts to be borne by vocational education and training providers.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2024

“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

For the man's ignorance and inefficiency it is proposed that the vocational education of boys be widely extended.

From Society Its Origin and Development by Rowe, Henry Kalloch