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