vocational education
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- noun
- /voʊˈkeɪʃənl ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃən/
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educación vocacional
- She enrolled in a vocational education course to learn skills for working in the culinary field.
- vocational education programs
- vocational education curriculum
- vocational education instructors
Those men should be caught in a system that cherishes and funds and values vocational education.
- Those men should be caught in a system that cherishes and funds and values vocational education.
- It's also true that I, it became one of the loudest proponents for vocational education in the country.
Examples
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Many students benefit from vocational education programs that prepare them for specific careers.
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The government is investing in vocational education to help reduce unemployment rates among young people.
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The reconstruction of community college vocational education programs is a great place to begin this journey.
Academic text (2015) -
Meeting these criteria in professional and technical/vocational education is not easy.
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New experiences and opportunities will be available to students to achieve vocational education objectives more effectively.
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Effort must be put forth to develop a quality vocational education curriculum.
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Today, community colleges are the leading providers of adult vocational education.
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A review of the literature shows that reform of vocational education with Tech Prep began a decade ago.
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Vocational students should have access to higher vocational education, but general students are taking their spots.
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A third group, a very small part of the student population, pursues vocational education after age fourteen.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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Education that teaches practical skills for a job or trade
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A course that teaches practical skills for a specific job
How Practical
24
3.5
4
3.2
2
3.4
42
3.6
25
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'vocational' (focused on skills for specific professions) with 'education' (formal learning), yielding education aimed at preparing people for particular trades or careers. This compositional pattern (X + education = education for X) is common and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The term vocational education comes from the word vocational, which comes from 'vocation' meaning 'job', and education that teaches hands-on skills. It paints the picture of a student in a workshop learning tools and tasks, so the phrase means 'education for a specific job' today.