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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Example Sentences

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

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

Each higher education institution will be given an individual restriction, the government announced on Tuesday, with the biggest cuts to be borne by vocational education and training providers.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 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

The methods used were characterized by a member of the Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee as "the actuarial basis of vocational education."

From Wage Earning and Education by Lutz, Rufus Rolla