vocational training
Education that teaches practical skills for a specific job or trade.
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IELTS use
Use this phrase in essays about university education, employment, practical skills, apprenticeships, and alternatives to academic study.
Examples
- Vocational training can be more useful than university for students who want to enter a trade.
- Governments should invest in vocational training to reduce youth unemployment.
Collocations
- provide vocational training
- Community colleges often provide vocational training.
- vocational training programmes
- Vocational training programmes can help young people find stable jobs.
Word family
- Noun
- vocation
- Verb
- train
- Adjective
- vocational
- Adverb
- practically
Paraphrases
- job-related training: A simple and clear alternative.
- skills-based education: Useful when focusing on practical abilities.
Common mistakes
- professional trainings to vocational training. Training is usually uncountable, and vocational is more precise for job-specific education.