The phrase "vocational studies" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to academic programs or courses that focus on specific skills or trades that are directly applicable to a certain profession or occupation. Example: "She enrolled in a vocational studies program for medical billing and coding, which prepared her for a successful career in the healthcare industry."
Should less-able students be directed to vocational studies?
They are insisting the girls should continue to receive formal education and not be downgraded to vocational studies.
On the day I visited the school they were helping their class brush up on vocational studies, which could boost their overall performance.
Under a new name, the University of South Carolina even expanded its course offerings to include vocational studies as well as the traditional liberal arts.
They will specialise in technical skills such as engineering or construction, with pupils able to take some GCSEs alongside their vocational studies.
Labour adopted a version of his proposed diploma but only for vocational studies and therefore without the "unified framework" for post-14 education that was fundamental to his report.
Marylebone's Sylvia Young Theatre School - which bills itself as "offering a high level of academic and vocational studies" and counts Rita Ora and the late Amy Winehouse among its alumni - was also revealed to have received the Government's notice.
Students might also choose to obtain, in descending order of qualification requirements and course demands, the technician diploma (brevet de technicien), the diploma of vocational studies (brevet d'études professionelles), or the certificate of vocational aptitude (certificat d'aptitude professionelle).
Although designated as a land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1862, the college emphasized classical studies, mathematics, and literature courses over science and vocational studies in its first few years.
In addition, the UK invests less in vocational studies than academic; it spends heavily on smaller class sizes, even though the evidence shows that investing in highly trained staff is more effective, and in the UK total expenditure on education exceeds that of most OECD countries.
Its proposals, in 2004, for a baccalaureate-style diploma structure, encompassing both academic and vocational studies and absorbing (but not wholly superseding) GCSEs and A-levels, drew almost universal applause, with teachers' unions, universities and the CBI in agreement on their merits.
