vocational programs
Career preparation courses
Vocational programs are educational courses that train students for specific trades or occupations rather than academic study.
They prepare people for careers in fields like plumbing, welding, nursing, or automotive repair—work requiring practical skills more than theoretical knowledge.
She enrolled in a vocational program to become an electrician.
Also called trade programs or career and technical education.
- trade schoolCareer-focused technical education
- community collegeTwo-year public institution
- nursingMedical caretaking profession
- carpentryWood construction trade
- bookkeepingRecording financial transactions systematically
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- job trainingjob training, apprenticeships, mentoring, coaching, on-the-job training
- Youth Jobsteen workers, summer jobs, part-time jobs, first job, babysitters
- hospitality careershospitality management, hotel management, culinary arts, restaurant management, guest services
- school boardsboard members, board meetings, board chair, vice chair, board minutes
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Broad, non-vocational scholarly training
classical education · general education · university education · academic programs · liberal studies
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Advanced research degree curricula
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