vocational education
Career-focused learning
Vocational education is training focused on practical skills for specific trades or occupations rather than academic knowledge.
Programs cover fields like plumbing, welding, nursing, automotive repair, and culinary arts.
The term often contrasts with liberal arts or college-preparatory education: She chose vocational education over a four-year degree.
Also called career and technical education.
- trade schoolsJob-focused training institutions
- occupationsTypes of paid work
- apprenticeshipLearning trade through employment
- blue collarManual labor workforce
- reskillingLearning new work capabilities
community colleges · job training · workforce development · technical institutes · career tech · credentialing · hands-on learning · job placement · career pathways · degree · skill acquisition · training · college · tuition · hands-on · diploma · scholarship · workshop
- Asian educationConfucian academies, civil service exams, private academies, Peking University, examination halls
- Education Policycurriculum reform, K-12, school reform, curriculum standards, school funding
- educationschool, schools, teachers, students, learning
- adult educationadult learning, GED prep, adult classes, night classes, evening classes
- education historypublic schooling, school reform, one-room school, medieval universities, elementary school
- job readinessjob readiness, work readiness, employability, career readiness, job skills
vocational educationliberal arts education
Broad, non-vocational scholarly training
liberal arts · general education · classical education · liberal studies · arts and sciences
vocational educationelite education
Highly selective academic training
finishing school · university education · college prep · professional education · graduate education
education, educate, educated, educator, educational, vocation, educating, educators, educative