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Like most things technical schools have evolved over time. Vocational schools and their programs have been modified based on educational needs and the economics and business. 1600-1800 According to history, the first law of compulsory education came into existence in mid 1600s in an effort to create an educated citizenry and the defeat of Satan.

The old illusion of Satan Act of the Massachusetts Bay Colony set specific requirements to teach students basic skills in academic and professional. As the years pass and the changing needs of the community, vocational schools and programs have been designed based on the new date. The defeat of the native guides led the Pennsylvania Carlisle Indian School where the program has led the training. With the end of the Civil War, Booker T. Washington has expressed its belief that vocational training is the ideal way for most African-Americans. At that time, vocational training becomes an important element of American society. 1900 to today, during the end of the century and move America toward industrialization, there was an even greater need for vocational training. President Theodore Roosevelt calls for educational reform to provide training in urban and rural areas. Support for federal funds for vocational education was the American Federation of Labor (AFL) that programs such as discriminatory against, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), which has promoted trade in schools.

However, the Federal Office for Vocational Training began in earnest with the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917, vocational training set up a federal program. During the 1960s the vocational training had been well established. In 1963, the Vocational Training Act expands the definition of vocational training on work programs in high schools and improvement of vocational training programs for disadvantaged and disabled students included.

Now the emphasis is experienced in organizing their curricula so that students acquire the academic skills and professional can do to prepare for competition in the labor market, and professionalism. The future, it is never more advantageous and important for career-minded students to continue their training. With the variety of vocational schools that are available, it’s just a matter of definition, the training programs best suited to your career aspirations.

Web designers and Web developers to work hand in hand and both areas require much skill. There is a great demand in this area and it is therefore very important that you learn all the techniques in this field. Only one course is fair, except that you many others are not so well informed in this regard. Given below are the basic skills in the field of web development is necessary.

Skills RequiredThe based tertiary education in web design is not only the technical side of things, but also other skills needed to become a web designer. A basic advice should always be remembered in this context that this area needs to be a good observer with an eye for detail will be. It is very important for a web designer to pay attention to every detail. It is very important for a designer to see how we respond to the needs and requirements of customers. You should be careful about your target market in the design process.

A web designer must have a keen sense of aesthetics. effective Web site design is one that provides all the necessary information in a way that appeals to the audience. Therefore, with the information, it is very important for the site attractive eye-catching ad. Remember, a place or boring design is sure to discourage users from accessing the site. You are not page after page, the list of information.

Your creativity can be found on how you can compress the information they need in an attractive manner. Where detailed information on its users and access Wikipedia, perhaps, why a site designed to go through you? You need to provide essential information to prepare the content for the site. Looking at the technical side of things, you should have a good knowledge of XHTML and HTML technology. These technologies are changing every day, then you need to keep improving in this regard. If you are ignorant about the basic languages for web design you will not communicate properly on the website you design. You can easily create a simple web page using only the two main languages. CSS is the next leading-edge program that should be learned, if he wants to survive in this field. It is an amazing tool. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets. A thorough knowledge of these will help you improve your design unique layout of Web pages. In addition, you can also make your web page style and give it a completely different look. In addition to CSS, you must also feel comfortable with the use of Javascript and Ajax. It is the basic element, the interactive is a must for any website. It is therefore important for web designers to overcome them. Once you are an expert in Javascript, you must also learn to work with other platforms such as C + +, Perl, ASP, etc.

To open up more avenues for the development of a website. How to improve your skills in the department of graphics and animation, you must learn to use Flash. The sky is the limit in that design Web Goes. You can still learn all the time and never get tired. That’s because every day that passes technology for better development. It also designs your best, faster and more efficiently.

This summer, Shanghai Medium Vocational Education Ushered in the harvest season: In the recently concluded National Vocational Skills Competition, the Shanghai group was the total score and the functional group of the two gold medals, “first in the country”; this year’s enrollment in the examination, the secondary air, air services schools, while continuing hot, South Lake vocational, business Foreign Language School, Donghui Vocational School, vocational Zhenhua foreign economic situation and a number of schools applied for heating up greatly. Employment And further study the “double channel” and smooth, finally out in the vocational school, “marginized” to attract more young people through vocational education talent.

Education Expert This has a vivid metaphor: the former high school in grade school like a “brother”, a little “subsidiary” flavor, and now “status” clear, entered the mature stage. Contributed to this change is that the government “modular” support, industry demand driven, and the school’s own “content correction.”

Stronger: the full support of the Government

A key professional schools in the city and enjoy the “professional incentives” and vocational school students and foreign economic Zhenhua said: “My major is your favorite school is also given incentives, What I was encouraged. ”

The enjoyment of vocational students, is the government support the development of vocational education initiatives. Shanghai clearly, should vocational education as an important foundation for economic and social development and education of strategic focus, play the leading role of the government, increasing financial input. Since 2006, the Shanghai city education surtax for the proportion of secondary vocational education increased from 22% to 30% to 34% in 2010. The past two years, Shanghai has been fully implemented by the professional category of student public funding norms, built a number of advanced open training center, so the content of school education and modernization of production Technology Synchronization.

To encourage more young people choose vocational education, the city set up covering all full-time general secondary vocational schools and all students in the school funding policy system, including “national student system” and “Government Scholarships” the establishment of a “Pratt & Whitney grants” poor students “national scholarships”, “professional incentives,” “Shanghai Government Scholarship” and “work-study, internship grants” and other funding channels 5. Last academic year, the city has invested 339 million yuan of public finances, so that students benefit from the 9% expansion to 100% to 18 million, the average per student funding each year 1,856 yuan.

High input to vocational schools in the “real situation” greatly strengthened, more professional strength.

Doing fine: Course Content Requirements Craft class, presentation of parts of “model” Teacher on the blackboard or flip chart diagrams pointing; professional practice, students from the “master” led to “do life”?? This professional process theory teaching skills and professional practice the separation of the two situation in today’s Shanghai in the vocational school is now history; replaced by the “integration of teaching.”

Senior technical schools in Shanghai Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Training Center, electrical and mechanical equipment maintenance skills, practice area, 17 students are led by teachers conducted Chang surface grinding of the disassembly and adjustment. Beginning of this lesson, students focus on second floor, the teacher explained by Zhang and other basic theoretical knowledge related to process, and then went down into two groups to practice operation. Teacher Chang found during an inspection the quality of individual students to use hard tools readily and immediately commenced at the scene, from material science point of view should be used to explain different parts corresponding tool hardness truth.

From the machine as a teaching “props” to become the students hands-on “object”, then “integrated education”, this step-like changes, reflect the culture of vocational education Talent An innovation.

To Employment Oriented, competency-based, Shanghai vocational education in recent years, Enterprise’s actual needs and industry trends, constantly updating course content, strengthening of practical experiment Teaching; reforms to the school and classroom as the center of the traditional training model, actively promote the school and enterprise Cooperation Combining work with study, internship, and other new models; actively support and vigorously develop modern services, advanced manufacturing-related professions, the promotion of modern information technology in education and teaching in the field of widely used, and then built up a “task-based curriculum guide” for subjects of secondary vocational education curriculum.

Tertiary Vocational Education In Creative Subjects: The Newest Trend In Bachelors Studies

Enough has been said and written about tertiary education. After schooling, the next obvious step for any student who opts for his higher studies is applying to a college or university. And while we all know plenty about the usual Bachelors study courses- history, mathematics, law, accountancy, management etc, there have also been introduced new courses, which have elicited a lot of interest in students. These courses offer the students education in areas, which are very different from the usual run-off-the-mill courses generally offered to the students. These courses – generally taught under the umbrella term – Tertiary Vocational education, offered on the Bachelors level are lifesavers for those who are not looking to make a career in the usual fields.

Traditional college education has often been come under the scanner for being very theoretical and abstract. In todays job-centred market, vocational education is ideal as it provides hands-on experience in the field chosen by the student, so his college education puts him in a better position to secure a job immediately after an education. In recent times, vocational education has gone creative, with fields like music, photography, dance, drama, computers, web designing etc being the preferred choice for students. Not only does it let them explore their creative side, but also gives them formal education and practical training in careers that they probably would not have even imagined, they would take up seriously, until a few years ago.

With more and more colleges and universities aiming at creative vocational education at the Bachelors level, it is evident that such creative education is rapidly making a mark not only in the minds of the students, but educationists and parents as well. With the rapidly changing times, developments in technology, trade, even means of entertainment, and with globalisation becoming more than just a buzzword, the need for such education is very conspicuously felt.

While doctors, teachers, accountants, bankers etc will still find many takers (as great career options), the new trend today is not just to take up a career that pays you very well, or offers you job security, but doing something that actually interests you. Vocational training was limited to being a study that students could only take up part-time, along with their regular college education, but not any more. There are full-fledged courses and universities that offer creative vocational education, complete with examinations, apprenticeship and some even offer their students assistance in placements. The courses offered are designed in such a way that not only do the students get the required theoretical knowledge, but also get practical training and experience so they have a more clear idea of what to expect in an actual work environment.

Vocational education is not limited only to a few colleges; there are many options that you can explore. While some specialize in a particular type of art- language skills, designing or computers, others may offer you many courses under one roof. Your hobbies need not be supplementary to your education, but can actually be a full-fledged career with such education. Photography, music, acting, dancing, web designing, grooming, script writing whatever it is that interests you, it is possible to study it as an actual course at a recognized university. While vocational tertiary education might still be the unconventional option; with the kind of training and exposure these courses offer, they are soon becoming the rule rather than the exception.

Get Working Right After You Graduate – Tertiary Vocational Education

To meet the demands of a dynamic and technologically advancing world, the economy requires its workforce (the students) to be prepared to work in a work environment that requires more than just scholarly education. There are a growing number of job opportunities in the entertainment, photography, music, performing arts, web designing, computers, animation and other such sectors that require specialized knowledge and skills.

Such courses teach students to work independently, cope with high-pressure work situations, and deal with problems and issues practically and effectively. Creative vocational education is thus being encouraged so that students can focus on their careers, right from the Bachelors level and can be self-employed. Tertiary vocational education is no longer considered secondary to the conventional careers in teaching, banking, law etc, but has come to stand in its own right. And students stand to benefit the most from this.

Since easy employment is the primary motive of tertiary vocational courses, you can put all your worries about what kind of work you will get, or which companies will hire you, to rest. Creative vocational education at the Bachelors level prepares you for a career immediately after you graduate.

While you may not get very high paying, well-cushioned jobs in the beginning, the keyword in such courses is experience. Almost all vocational courses have a compulsory training or vocational period. Students are required to work with professionals and train under their supervision and it is very common to be offered a job with the company one has interned in. Since the trainee has already worked closely with the company, and knows what he is expected to do and how, they are given preference during recruitments, rather than an outsider.

Placements are given a lot of importance in vocational courses. Placement cells actively invite companies and professionals to recruit students from their colleges and universities. Many also offer placement assistance so that the students are assured of jobs at the completion of their course.

Freelancing and self-employment are other options that the students always have. The main objective of such courses is to make the students self-reliant and therefore entrepreneurship is highly encouraged. Web designing, music, photography, tourism and hospitality, animation, all provide tremendous scope, and there are enough job opportunities with the ever-burgeoning demand for such services.

The option of sending your resume and copies of your work to potential employers and recruiters is always open to the students. Since the syllabus of creative vocational courses is such that it requires you to work on many projects independently and showcase your work, students with such an education will definitely be more suitable for jobs after their graduation, rather than students who have only been exposed to theoretical classroom education. Sending your designs to a fashion house, choreography or music videos to recording studios, photography to local newspapers is sure to land you a job interview in the least, whenever there is a vacancy.

Though the job opportunities after tertiary vocational courses may not put you in the big league immediately, or give you a fat pay cheque, but it definitely offers a lot of scope for progress and development. If you are talented, and showcase it well, there is no limit to the kind of money and fame you can earn.

Differentiated Instruction: Should We Incorporate Vocational Education in Elementary and Middle School Curriculums?

The idea of planning a career can be stressful for all individuals.  In a global society, added pressure is placed on students concerning the issue of picking a successful career for the future.  In most states, obtainable careers outside of traditional college preparatory track can only be explored in ninth through twelfth grades. In some cases, vocational education options for students can only be entertained in the tenth through twelfth grades.  Regretfully, the issue is that most students drop-out of school before they reach the ninth grade, or while attending the ninth grade.

Primarily, the reasons students choose to withdraw from school is because no alternative education exists for them to at the present time.  Try to envision the scenario this way:  a student waits patiently for stimulating curriculum to build his or her foundation for a potential career, but no alternatives exists until the student reaches a certain age or grade level.  A limitation of favorable career options can be rather frustrating to a child. As a result, many students feel the school doesn’t view them as an independent thinker and author of their own economical destiny. Many students refuse the opportunities given to them to explore, so they simply drop-out of school.

But, does not having an alternate track for students to explore really force them out of school?  Are our schools to blame for increased drop-out rates, and ultimately the effects of crimes felt throughout the nation? I digress, but the school does play a vital role in preparing and equipping every child with the opportunity to explore new educational horizons-not all college based or age appropriate programs. Obviously students understand that college is not the route for them, due to little or no parental concern in higher education, or due to little or no interest from the student.

Our society is reflective of various careers that do not require a college degree, but in most schools in America we only offer students a high school diploma after successful completion of the state’s or district’s desired units. Afterwards, many of those same students pursue a college degree at a two-year or four-year college.   On the other hand, if a vocational track is offered to students at a younger age group (3rd-8th) they will be able to gain needed exposure in various disciplines related to vocational education, while avoiding the traditional “forced” routine of choosing college or the workforce-one or the other. If schools expanded their instructional program students explore various areas before making a serious commitment.  For instance if a 4th grade student, interested in nursing could experience the fundamentals of allied health, then the student would have about four years before he or she would have to make a decision on pursing certification from a vocational school or exploring the options in college preparatory courses. Even after gaining more exposure, there is no definite that the student will choose the field of his or her choice, but the school would have done a substantial service in providing every student with equal an opportunity and a level playing field.

Image the increase of productivity our society can experience if we exposed students to forms of alternate education before they reached the high school level?  In addition, we would experience a decrease in adolescent drop-out rates through the nation. The deduction in teen drop-outs will lead to a dramatic decrease in:  teen pregnancy, criminal acts, infant mortality rates, and suicide, just to name a few.  If we believe that our educational system is capable of producing a society of independent thinkers, we should trust that they will choose a career beneficial to their mental, emotional, social, and spiritual development.  Students should be allowed to make a choice between vocational education and college preparatory courses as soon as they are able to imagine the possibility of a career of their choice. As educators we should offer students a range of choices.  In addition, we must believe that every child can be successful if given a chance, and we should leave no stone unturned in our quest to provide opportunities for success for every students.

Zhejiang demand is high profile scientific and educational development of the 2008 Tianjin Vocational Education – seeking Zhejiang, Tianjin Vocational

The Ministry of Education staff as the Secretary, the Chinese occupation Technology Education Association and sponsored by the Tianjin Municipal Government, “the Sixth National Vocational Education Modern technology and equipment exhibition, “on June 28 opened in Tianjin, Vice Minister of Education of China, Tianjin Vice Mayor Zhang Junfang, the Chinese Society of Vocational and Technical Education and Vocational Zhang Tianbao and other leading institutions, industry, business representatives A total of 300 people attended the opening ceremony. The exhibition area of 14,000 square meters exhibition, exhibitors, including more than 200 domestic enterprises, more than 30 internationally renowned publishers and more than 20 vendors and exhibitors to reach more than 3000 kinds of products have nearly the college, nearly ten thousand people to participate in negotiations, is the largest of all previous exhibitions, the most complete varieties, the highest level of equipment next exhibition, Zhejiang Science and Education Equipment Co., Ltd. is seeking to participate in this exhibition.

Zhejiang seeking exhibitors, “the Sixth National Vocational Education and modern technology and equipment exhibition”

Click here to view all news photos Zhejiang Science and Education Equipment Co., Ltd. is seeking a professional and colleges in electric, automated teaching instrument development, production and sales of joint-stock enterprises, the company’s predecessor was founded in 1996, seeking the company of Zhejiang University Education Research Centre, The first product to market is EEL-I-type electrical teaching test.

Today, the company’s development has gone through more than 10 years the road is not flat, in the past 10 years, the company all staff adhering to the “seeking, innovation, passion and integrity” of the entrepreneurial spirit, in the various universities teacher’s concern and support and actively participate in the experiment of teaching and laboratory building of Reform, established a strong sense of honor and good team spirit, teaching equipment in time to track the direction of development of high-quality R & D team, and, and Zhejiang University , Tianjin University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and a number of famous universities to establish a long-term Cooperation Relations, concentrated training the core competitiveness of enterprises so that enterprises in the fierce market competition has grown rapidly.

Today’s demand is that from mere hardware manufacturer into a set of hardware and Software And one high-tech enterprises through the ISO9001: 2000 international quality management system certification, establishment of modern enterprise management system and perfect Talent Violent mechanism, the existing staff of nearly 300 people, including professional and technical staff account for 70 above, the new R & D production base is located on the city of Hangzhou Economic and Technology Park, covers an area of 20 mu, building area of nearly 20,000 square meters. Has a complete product line, the product covers the physical, electrical, electronic, mechanical drag, power electronics, automatic control, process control, motion control, mechatronics, building control, measuring instruments, machine tool electrical training, electrical automation and relay protection, PLC, measurement and control technology and other categories, a brand of choice for prestigious universities. Company more products in the World Bank loan and domestic competition Tender For Successful Products, product marketing many famous institutions of higher education (such as Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Beijing University of Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Tianjin University, Wuhan University, Xi’an University of Electronic Science and Technology, Shandong University, North China Electric Power University) and major colleges, but also exported to Malaysia, Korea, Algeria, Iraq and other countries.

The future, people seeking a profound understanding that has been achieved belongs to the past, the road ahead will still be full of risks, but as long as adhere to market-oriented, technology development, the quality of survival of the principle of continuous technological innovation, establish and perfect marketing network and perfect after-sales service, the company will continue to develop and continue to provide colleges and universities of the teaching product development, quality, reliability, performance, fine art teaching instrument, and the Chinese education toward a splendid future together.

Tertiary Vocational Education In Photography

Mark Twain says, Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. Hence, it would be best if you can turn your hobbies and passions into your career. It is only then you can achieve the best in your profession. Photography is one such field where to make it your profession you need to have the passion for it. Every picture has some story to tell, some event to record or some inspiration attached. Hence, it is very essential for a person, who wants to take up photography as a profession, to be creative and also have talent.

Photography is an art and one must have the flair for it to become a professional. If you have already decided upon making passion for clicking pictures your career then you must acquire some information about it before embarking on the journey. There are several kinds of jobs for photographers and you must select the best area wherein you can show your expertise. A photographers ability to capture the best image and give the subject a whole new angle to make it out of the ordinary, is what it takes to be a good professional. Drawing attention to different aspects of the subject, by blurring certain parts of a photo, or emphasizing the background, differentiates a particular image into different categories. Each photographer has his or her own field of expertise. You can undertake tertiary vocational education in each of the categories mentioned below.

Portrait Photographers: These are professionals who specialize in taking pictures in special family events. They take individual or group pictures and usually have their own studios to work in.

Commercial and Industrial: These photographers specialize in clicking pictures of buildings, merchandise, artifacts, landscapes, so on and so forth. In this field you can earn a lot as such pictures are continuously in demand and are extensively utilized in media, books, magazines, advertisements and catalogues. Industrial photographers dont hunt for a prospective buyer; rather they are hired in advance to work on a particular assignment wherein he has to capture pictures of machinery, products, workers and other officials. These pictures serve a particular purpose like assisting in an engineers analysis project, publicity, or for covering other industrial information.

Field of Science: The use of photography in the field of science is very necessary. It helps in recording scientific data and procedures. When working in the field of science it is necessary that the photographer must have knowledge in one or more branches of science. This will help them to identify a situation where in a digital image record would be required and work accordingly.

Photojournalism: Photojournalists are in huge demand today, what with media entering every field of action. Such photographers are expected to cover pictures of people or incidents that are newsworthy. The pictures that they capture should be of high quality and should be self explanatory. These pictures should be complete in themselves to tell their own story. Such photographers cover political, social, entertainment or sports events for journals, newspapers, magazines, news channels, and many more.

The field of photography has certain working conditions, which may vary from one field or organization to another. For example, news photographers are mostly on the run, working on short notice and at long, irregular hours. There are some who work part time, and the ones who have their own studios can work as long as they work, whenever they want, and they also have the liberty of choosing their own projects.

Working With Our Hands: The Importance Of Vocational Education

“What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.”~ Arnold Glasow

My wife Girija and I recently visited the Olcott Memorial High School in Chennai. We were shown around by the director, Ms. Lakshmi Suryanarayanan, a highly committed and energetic 60-year-young lady brimming with ideas on how to make the school better.

We were especially impressed with the crafts section, where the students not only learnt crafts like tailoring, jewelry making, and screen, but also sold their products in the annual Theosophical Society exhibitions. Set up in 1894 by the President and Founder of the Theosophical Society, Col. H.S. Olcott, the school is committed to uplifting the lower castes by providing them free education and the dignity of the skilled working life.

Lakshmi told us the students really enjoy these craft periods. They build skills for life, whether for personal or professional or both. It made me realize how it is unfortunate that our education system does not value craft disciplines and vocational courses at the same level as academic pursuits like science and math.

Parents pressure their children to pursue degrees and jobs as the means to upward social mobility. Lakshmi told us about a student, Dinesh (name changed), who was not academically inclined, but gifted in crafts. Lakshmi organized scholarships for the boy to pursue craft studies.

However, his parents stepped in, and forced him to go through mainstream education. After a year of frustration, the boy dropped out of the academic track, and is now exploring options for getting back to a craft diploma.

When the Honorable Minister for Education, Kapil Sibal, addressed the recent Conscious Capitalism conference, I asked him why pursuit of craft disciplines should not lead to a high school degree. His response was parental pressure – parents would view it as a dilution of the value of the high school degree.

In an earlier post, I had talked about Dr. Kalbagh’s successful experiment with vocational courses in Maharashtra – Vigyan Ashram. It is fortunate that the Maharashtra Board has adopted vocational training as a valid stream within SSC. Perhaps every board should.

In a country like India, we know that employment opportunities in the organized sector are limited to less than 10% of the available work force. We know that people have natural talents that may extend beyond academics into arts, crafts, and other professions, or running small businesses – ways of earning a good living while enjoying what you do.

However, the education system is oriented towards employability in the narrow domain of getting a job, rather than building capabilities and competencies that equip people to work on their own and excel at what they do.

How do we bring back the dignity of labor, regardless of the path one chooses to labor in? How do we convince the parent community that an academic pursuit is just one of several options available to their children? And that they should encourage their children to follow their dreams rather than get stuck in mediocrity?

How do we get our educational system and government to open up a plethora of possibilities to our youngsters – from traditional crafts and vocations to the new global business opportunities that the internet has thrown open? How do we get our children ready for success in the Connected Age?

These are the questions that we’re trying to get answers to. Do share your own thoughts and insights on promoting work oriented education.

What is Vocational Training?

Vocational learning is quite different from taking up a normal college degree. In vocational training a student is taught a specific skill which is traditionally non-academic and totally related to a specific trade, vocation or occupation. It is also known by the name technical education at times. Here the student directly picks up expertise in a particular technique or technology.

Vocational training emphasize on providing specific skills to a trade or industry. Training concentrates on practical experience so that the student secures employment in that field. As such vocational training is quite different from normal education that consists of learning of abstract conceptual knowledge.

Vocational education should start at either secondary or post-secondary level. Further, it can also be interacted with the apprenticeship system. In the American system, vocational education cannot be termed as part of the tertiary education. It does not fall under the traditional definition of a higher education either taking into consideration its own form and syllabus. However, it is increasingly recognized in terms of recognition of prior learning and partial academic credit towards tertiary education. It is more career-orientated and technical rather than being academic.

Vocational education in the US has come a long way to be recognized. In its earlier days mostly automobile mechanic, welder and others undertook vocational training. As such people used to regard it as lower social classes activities. It has come a long way to remove this social stigma and now many high career aspirants undertake vocational training.

The global economy in general has become more competitive and everywhere there is a demand for highly skilled employees. The labor market has becomes more specialized. Sensing this, the Federal government has started investing more money into vocational education organizations that are publicly funded. The cost of apprenticeship and traineeship has also become less so as to encourage vocational education. Post-secondary vocational education is usually provided by a local community college or an institute of technology.

With industries sectors such as retail, information technology, tourism, cosmetics, funeral services and crafts and cottage industries requiring vocationally trained people, the future of vocational education is quite good. In the coming years, vocational education is likely to be diversified into other sectors as well.

Most of the community colleges in the US offer vocational education, though the approach may vary from state to state. Some states also have institutes of technology offering vocational education. These institutes are on an equal accreditation footing with other state universities.

Junior high schools and high schools also pay attention to vocational training though in a very limited way. Some of the vocational courses offered at this level include drafting and auto repair, typing, business courses, wood and metal shop, and home economics. The Federal and state governments have also taken other measures to link academics to work. School to Work is one such initiative that involves spending time at a job site, though without pay.

The Office of Vocational and Adult Education within the US Department of Education makes sure that vocational education is not given a step motherly treatment. Along with the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, it supervises the vocational activities in the US. The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest private association in the US dedicated to the advancement of vocational education.