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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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Workforce Pell has an additional effect: It recognizes the importance of vocational education to many workers’ futures.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

But despite joining a cohort of new classmates all pursuing a vocational education in the arts - he said he did not immediately feel represented within this new environment.

From BBC Mar. 7, 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

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

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