adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a vocational course (= that trains you to do a particular job )
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a vocational course in architecture
a vocational qualification British English (= one relating to a skilled job, such as nurse or a builder )
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You can study for a vocational qualification in the tourism industry.
job/vocational training
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The college provides vocational training for nurses and theatre technicians.
vocational education (= relating to skills needed for a particular job )
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We offer vocational education and job training.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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This year, we've not had time to integrate teaching and assessment of core skills into vocational areas .
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A guidance document will be produced giving examples of how to apply the skills to specific vocational areas .
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At Level One students will undertake self-assessment, identify qualities and skills and relate these to appropriate vocational areas .
course
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The curriculum for most young people who have left school involves academic or vocational courses which prepare them for specific adult roles.
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Others might take two to four vocational courses at a community college or a technical institution.
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Some 60 percent. of enrolments are for vocational courses and 40 percent. are for leisure courses.
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Perhaps the lack of academic substance could be overlooked if students who took vocational courses did better in the job market.
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By contrast with the north-east, Dyfed is not sufficiently industrialized to support an institution offering advanced vocational courses .
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Because of the schools emphasis on vocational courses such as computing and engineering, school leavers have a good success rate in getting jobs.
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At the same time, the schools developed a whole series of vocational courses .
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The vocational course in architecture seeks to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter the profession.
education
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History has much to contribute to vocational education in both its narrower and broader definitions.
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Effective school-to-work systems are not just a new and improved version of vocational education .
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These quite explicitly linked vocational education with the low status black people were expected to occupy in the social hierarchy.
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So we need to preserve that part of vocational education but greatly diminish narrow training for specific jobs.
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The classes offered by the project reflected an emphasis on instrumental and vocational education .
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It massively increased the budget of the Manpower Services Commission, enabling it to play a dominant role in vocational education .
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In many places, it has been relegated to a reform of vocational education .
guidance
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The authorities were enabled to grant scholarships, and to give vocational guidance .
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In this respect they are the forerunners of the juvenile labour exchanges with their affiliated services of vocational guidance and after-care.
qualification
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The Vocational Access Certificate has been designed as a preliminary vocational qualification for those with special training needs.
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Working with other organisations to develop appropriate vocational qualifications based on the standards.
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Additionally, if a young trainee achieves a vocational qualification additional funding can be received for the benefit of future trainees.
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Steps towards free movement of labour have been taken by use of mutual recognition of many vocational qualifications .
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Three hundred vocational qualifications are now accredited.
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People are given the chance to gain a vocational qualification in areas as diverse as catering, working with horses and machinery.
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The document also includes proposals to bring vocational qualifications nearer to the A-level gold standard.
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Applicants need either a degree or vocational qualifications in the subject they want to teach.
school
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The churches have never objected to the existence of the vocational schools since their establishment in the early 1930s.
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She started at a vocational school that had opened a year after the 1979 overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza.
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It must be added that vocational schools have traditionally had low status.
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From that success came an idea to establish a vocational school for the teaching of these crafts and music.
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The teen-agers at the vocational school , on the other hand, had joined the language game late.
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In high school , her counselor advised her either to go to vocational school or to stay home.
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Too many of them are less places of higher learning than they are high-class vocational schools .
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Traditionally, vocational schools have focused on jobs that do not require higher education.
skill
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These may relate generally to vocational skills to impart the idea that history and vocationalism are not antithetical.
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He believed that communications was only different in that it offered some vocational skills .
training
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The prospects for later vocational training and employment are good.
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Will my hon. Friend explain how national vocational qualifications help vocational training ?
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It is terribly important that this country takes vocational training seriously.
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The Training Commission's involvement in vocational training in local authority colleges of further education provides a further example.
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Parents, social workers and other carers have an educational role as do vocational training staff, employers and employees.
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It provides a foundation on which future academic study and vocational training can be built.
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Eurotecnet, developing vocational training in the new technologies.
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Most of these practices have practitioners trained overseas or before the vocational training scheme became mandatory.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Not all the courses are purely vocational .
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The Job Corps is a vocational training program for low-income youths.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After that students go off to vocational and on-the-job training.
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And the more vocational classes students take, the worse they perform on national assessments of achievement.
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Besides, there are vocational and technical schools to deal with job training for kids not destined for college.
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Compared to them, I was without skill, a vocational basket case.
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Eventually unmarried women found vocational outlets as missionaries.
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The vocational course in architecture seeks to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to enter the profession.
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The results of such changes are institutions which concentrate very largely on advanced vocational and general courses.
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Throughout the new Sciences provision the emphasis is on the development of scientific attitudes and the vocational applications of science.