professional education
Job skills schooling
Professional education is training that prepares people for specific licensed or credentialed occupations—law, medicine, nursing, engineering, teaching.
It combines theoretical knowledge with practical skills required for practice: She completed her professional education at a top medical school.
Distinguished from general or liberal education by its direct vocational application and often by formal certification requirements.
- online learningStudy conducted via internet
- graduate schoolInstitution awarding advanced degrees
- certificationsOfficial competency documents
- apprenticeshipsSupervised vocational training periods
- examFormal knowledge assessment
career advancement · medicine · boot camps · skill building · critical thinking · law · accountability · technical expertise · integrity · ethical decision-making · promotions · code of ethics · credentialing · engineering · mentor · social responsibility · confidentiality · certification programs
professional educationliberal arts education
Broad, non-vocational scholarly training
general education · liberal arts · liberal education · classical education · arts and sciences
professional educationself-education
Independent pursuit of knowledge
on-the-job training · street smarts · unschooling · apprenticeship · autodidacticism
professional educationgeneral studies
Multidisciplinary educational program
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