Definition: Vocational education

Category: Education - ISCED

Education that is designed for learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies specific to a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Vocational education may have work-based components (e.g. apprenticeships). Successful completion of such programmes leads to labour-market relevant vocational qualifications acknowledged as occupationally-oriented by the relevant national authorities and/or the labour market http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/other_documents/isced_2011/UNESCO_GC_36C-19_ISCED_EN.pdf UNESCO Institute for Statistics, "Instruction Manual for Completing the Questionnaires on Statistics of Education", UIS/E/2013M, Montreal, January 2013