Vocational education or vocational education and training is an education that prepares trainees for
jobs or
careers at various levels from a
trade to a
craft or a position in
engineering,
accounting,
nursing,
medicine and other healing arts,
architecture,
pharmacy,
law etc. Craft vocations are usually based on manual or practical activities, traditionally non-
academic, related to a specific trade,
occupation, or
vocation. It is sometimes referred to as technical education as the trainee directly develops expertise in a particular group of techniques. In the UK some higher technician engineering positions that require 4-5 year apprenticeship require academic study to HNC / HND level.