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In 1963, the Vocational Education Act added support for vocational education schools for work-study programs and research. The Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 modified the Act and created the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education.
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research or NCVER [38] is a not-for-profit company owned by the federal, state and territory ministries responsible for training. It is responsible for collecting, managing, analysing, evaluating and communicating research and statistics about vocational education and training (VET).
Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China A vocational school, (alternatively known as a trade school, or technical school) is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education [1] designed to provide vocational education or technical ...
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is an Australian non-profit that promotes research on the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia, and acts as a funding body for research in that field.
Vocational schools in the United States are traditionally two-year colleges which prepare students to enter the workforce after they receive an Associate degree. Students may also use courses as credit transferable to four-year universities. Programs often combine classroom lessons in theory with hands-on applications of the lessons students ...
The Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) emerged from the Swiss Pedagogical Institute for Vocational Education (SPIVE), which was founded in Zollikofen in 1972. In 1975, a second location was opened in Lausanne for French-speaking Switzerland, and in 1991 a third location was opened in Lugano for Italian ...
A vocational university or university of applied sciences (UAS), less commonly called a polytechnic university [1] is an institution of higher education and increasingly research that provides applied professional education and grants academic degrees.
The Smith–Hughes National Vocational Education Act of 1917 was an act of the United States Congress that promoted vocational education in "agriculture, trades and industry, and homemaking," [1] and provided federal funds for this purpose.