Vocational education

Category: Vocational education

* Vocational education

* Vocational education

Due to hard life conditions, after graduation from vocational school, 17-year-old Leszek got a job in the Textile Linen Plant in Żyrardów, while continuing his education in the evenings at the Vocational Secondary School of Electric Power Engineering.

The Vocational course is a one-year programme provided to upper secondary school students who, for various reasons, do not want to continue their education.

* Vocational education

Category: Vocational education

( 1964 ) " John Henry Reynolds, pioneer of technical education in Manchester ", Vocational Aspect 16 / 35, 176 – 96

Vocational education ( also known as vocational education and training or VET ) is an education that prepares trainees for jobs or careers at various levels from a trade to a craft or a position in engineering, accountancy, nursing, medicine, and other healing arts, architecture, pharmacy, law etc.

Vocational education may be classified as teaching procedural knowledge.

Vocational education can be at the secondary, post-secondary level, further education level and can interact with the apprenticeship system.

Vocational education is related to the age-old apprenticeship system of learning.

Vocational education has diversified over the 20th century and now exists in industries such as retail, tourism, information technology, funeral services and cosmetics, as well as in the traditional crafts and cottage industries.

The boundaries between Vocational education and tertiary education are becoming more blurred.

Vocational education is an important part of the education systems in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland ( including the French and the Italian speaking parts of the country ) and one element of the German model.

Vocational secondary schools ( szakközépiskola ) provide four years of general education and also prepare students for the maturata.

Vocational training schools ( szakiskola ) initially provide two years of general education, combined with some pre-vocational education and career orientation, they then choose an occupation, and then receive two or three years of vocational education and training focusing on that occupation – such as bricklayer.

Vocational educators do not claim that school training alone makes skilled workers, but it provides the essential groundwork for developing skills.

Vocational training which holds no hope that the skill developed will be in fact a marketable skill becomes just another school `` chore '' for those whose interest in their studies has begun to falter.

Vocational career training is available to high school students free of charge in Cadillac and nearby schools at Wexford-Missaukee Independent School District ( ISD ) Career Tech Center ( formerly Wexford-Missaukee Vocational Center or Voc-Tech ).

Vocational training includes electronics, brickwork and carpentry courses up to City & Guilds and NVQ level, Painting and Decorating courses, industrial cleaning and Desk Top Publishing.

Vocational high schools offer hands-on training to students that prepares them for careers in fields such as information technology, marketing, business, engineering and the medical professions.

The National Centre for Vocational Education Research or NCVER is a not-for-profit company owned by the federal, state and territory ministers responsible for training.

The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education ( IVE ) provides training in nine different vocational fields, namely: Applied Science ; Business Administration ; Child Education and Community Services ; Construction ; Design ; Printing, Textiles and Clothing ; Hotel, Service and Tourism Studies ; Information Technology ; Electrical and Electronic Engineering ; and Mechanical, Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering.

Vocational training in India is provided on a full-time as well as part-time basis.

Vocational training has been successful in India only in industrial training institutes and that too in engineering trades.

The government is now piloting Vocational Meister Schools in which workplace training is an important part of the programme.

Vocational education and training provided under the Upper Secondary Education Under secretariat includes three main types of programme:

The National Council for Vocational Education and Training advises the Minister on the development of the national vocational education and training system.

Vocational programmes include 15 weeks of workplace training ( Arbetsplatsförlagd utbildning – APU ) over the three-year period.

Further education / training can also be obtained at the Southridge Vocational Center.

Bridgewater is the home of the Somerset County Vocational and Technical High School, a four-year magnet school that provides occupational and academic training to students from all of Somerset County.

Compulsory for all children, it is followed by the non-mandatory Lyceum ( ages 15 – 18 ) for students with academic aspirations, or the Technical Vocational Educational School ( TEL ) for students who prefer vocational training.

National Vocational Qualifications ( NVQs ) are work based awards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that are achieved through assessment and training.

They also offer a wide range of training courses for building professionals including construction related National Vocational Qualifications NVQs.

* DS1 has been developed for the Recreational and Vocational student who for various reasons may or may not wish to commence training in the Cecchetti Major levels.

To assist the States, therefore, in rehabilitating handicapped individuals, `` so that they may prepare for and engage in remunerative employment to the extent of their capabilities '', the 83rd Congress enacted the Vocational Rehabilitation Amendments of 1954 ( P. L. 565 ).

These amendments to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were designed to help provide for more specialized rehabilitation facilities, for more sheltered and `` half-way '' workshops, for greater numbers of adequately trained personnel, for more comprehensive services to individuals ( particularly to the homebound and the blind ), and for other administrative improvements to increase the program's overall effectiveness.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

In the province of Quebec, even when speaking in English, colleges are called Cégeps for Collège d ' enseignement général et professionnel, meaning " College of General and Vocational Education ".

In 2002, the Department for Education and Skills developed National Occupational Standards for hypnotherapy linked to National Vocational Qualification based on National Qualifications Framework under The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

Recent projects and notable inputs by the EU have included telecommunications ( improvement of telephone exchanges and provision of radio and navigation equipment ), the development of seaweed as an export crop, solar energy systems for the outer islands, the upgrading of the Control Tower and fire fighting services at Tarawa's Bonriki International Airport, outer island social development, health services and extensive support for the Kiribati Vocational Training Programme.

While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, she was also the singer for a local band called " Longshot " which covered Top 40 music.

* European Training Thesaurus ; ISBN 978-92-896-0471-0, ( European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training-Cedefop )

All participants in the NLSY took the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery ( ASVAB ), a battery of ten tests taken by all who apply for entry into the armed services.

* National Centre for Vocational Education Research ( NCVER )

The Università dei Sapori ( University of Tastes ), a National centre for Vocational Education and Training in Food, is located in the city as well.