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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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But improving access to technical and vocational education has been a common focus for governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland too in recent years.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

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

He got his idea of vocational education there.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by Work Projects Administration

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