Wiktionary
n. A school that provides vocational education
WordNet
n. a secondary school teaching the skilled trades [syn: trade school]
Wikipedia
A vocational school, sometimes called a trade school or vocational college, is a post-secondary educational institution designed to provide vocational education, or technical skills required to perform the tasks of a particular and specific job. Vocational schools are traditionally distinguished from four-year colleges by their focus on job-specific training to students who are typically bound for one of the skilled trades, rather than providing academic training for students pursuing careers in a professional discipline. While many schools have largely adhered to this convention, the purely vocational focus of other trade schools began to shift in the 1990s "toward a broader preparation that develops the academic" as well as technical skills of their students.
Vocational School, Vakschool, Huishoudschool, or Ambachtsschool in Haarlem refers to set of Haarlem schools that conformed to a type of Dutch Junior High School based on practical training with the aim of obtaining employment. This type of school was discontinued with the 1968 law for further schooling called the Mammoetwet.
Usage examples of "vocational school".
Hector had a certain reputation as a wit, among the students of the Salterton Collegiate Institute and Vocational School.
Tess wondered why he was irritated that she'd applied for admission to the vocational school, when he'd already said he wanted her to do it.
This was the vast population that moved on a straight track from day care to vocational school to assembly line to the long vodka queue to the grave.
Taavi was a student at a vocational school in Tallinn, on his way home.
The state had cut him loose at eighteen with an option to attend vocational school.
And Jenny was doin' real good in vocational school, doin' Homecraft.
It was bad luck that they didn't check that pasture, but Christabel's shorthanded and she's back at the vocational school full-time, too.
When she thought of Maganos Moonbase, which she had helped Delszaki Li, her old mentor, transform from a useless moon into an educational and vocational school for the former child slaves they had rescued, it made her feel less burdened by her present task.