vocational
/və(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l
/adjective
1Relating to an occupation or employment: vocational training...
- He engaged in meaningful employment, vocational pursuits and social interests.
- Many are engaged in vocational activities like weaving bedsheets and towels.
- Their vocational and pastoral activities formed an integral and intimate part of diocesan life.
1.1(Of education or training) directed at a particular occupation and its skills: specialized vocational courses such as fashion and catering have been popular among students...
- They also provide information on full and part-time vocational training and education courses.
- The minister for skills and vocational education, is expected to announce the proposals to Parliament in March.
- These factors, in turn, have a severe impact on the vocational education and training in South Africa.
Derivatives
vocationalism
- As to vocationalism, professional academic fields are inevitably at least partially defined by the nature of the profession.
- Have we got priorities right - or are we slumming it in the name of some spurious vocationalism or management theory?
- While the conditions in which academics are working are changing and becoming saturated with economic imperatives, university structures are still reliant on the vocationalism and good will of scholars.
vocationalize
- What we're doing instead is vocationalising education, making it a training camp for the labour market.
- The course has been vocationalised to suit students looking at employment with NGOs and research institutes.
- However, even if most of these constraints are overcome, it is virtually impossible to vocationalise formal education.
vocationally
- He argued that vocationally educated individuals entering the industry could be better equipped with a broader knowledge base.
- There's no rest for the vocationally challenged, though: the very next day after my slightly pensive release into the job market at large, I scuttled around the city happily attending three interviews, all for great jobs.
- A comparison of the content and lessons of GNVQ and A-level courses seems to confirm employers' suspicions that A-level pupils are better equipped for the world of work than their vocationally qualified peers.