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vocational education

American  

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

And from the party’s centrist wing, former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel describes his program as “build, baby, build,” arguing that Democrats should focus on making housing affordable and expanding technical and vocational education.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 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

Since August 2022, it has worked with City and Guilds, which offers vocational education and apprenticeship partnerships, to teach inmates how to maintain railway infrastructure.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2025

Surely we can now say with unanimous consent that Home Economics has revealed itself to be not a species of sex education but a species of vocational education.

From The Women of Tomorrow by Hard, William

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