"vocational development" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the process of acquiring or improving the skills needed to perform a trade or job. For example, Jack is enrolling in a vocational development program to help him advance his career in carpentry.
Results demonstrated significant increases in career planning and exploration efficacy, and educational and vocational development efficacy among experimental group participants.
"Improving training is essential, so we are working with training providers to raise the standard of both basic skills and the process of continuous professional and vocational development".
The Boston Reentry Initiative (BRI) is an interagency initiative to help transition violent adult offenders released from the local jail back to their Boston neighborhoods through mentoring, social service assistance, and vocational development.
What began for me as a curious but agreeable part-time work-study job to accompany my academic studies at Union and my career as a folk singer and songwriter, over the course of a year has come to play a significant role in my theological education and vocational development.
The context, in interaction with the student's potential vocational development and the teacher's competence, thereby represents the potential of PBVE.
For example, Baethge and Baethge-Kinsky ([1998]) and Rauner ([2007]) depict vocational development as a coherent process of identity and competence development occurring while becoming member of a vocational community.
This implication is discussed in relation to vocational teachers' development of a professional identity and their teaching of the vocational subject.
The 20 TVET interventions consisted of one or more of the different models or approaches to vocational skills development (see Table 1).
Data was collected from both regional and cities administration selected technical and vocational enterprise development departments with the involvement of concerned officials and MSE operators.
We acknowledge that the relative salience of identity domains may vary across cultures and socioeconomic contexts but note that several studies confirm that vocational identity development is a priority in adolescence (Kroger [1993]; Skorikov and Vondracek [1998], Solomontos-Kountouri and Hurry [2008]).
Networks also facilitated income generation, music, drama and vocational skills development.
