Vocational People Education Offer Colleges Focus Eslpod Technical

Vocational education trains people for particular jobs, giving them technical skills and knowledge needed for careers such as electricians, brick masons, "blacksmiths" (people who make things out of metal by heating iron to very high temperatures), "telecommunication technicians" (people who maintain the networks for digital communication, such as wiring and maintaining electrical panels), and "chefs" (professional cooks). These schools emphasize "practical" (applied in real life), "hands-on" (using one's hands) experience rather than "theoretical" (based on ideas, but not on real-life) or "liberal arts" (related to language, literature, history, and similar fields) subjects.

Many "community colleges" (colleges that offer two-year degrees, often for students who plan to transfer to four-year universities) offer vocational education, often working in close "partnership" (working together closely) with local employers. But community colleges also offer broader education in liberal arts.

Other schools focus "exclusively" (only; without anything else) on vocational education. These are sometimes called vocational colleges or career colleges. They often focus on careers in a particular field. For example, some career colleges focus "solely" (only) on medicine, training future nurses, medical "transcriptionist" (people who type the information in audio recordings) and "medical coders" (people who write the codes that correspond to medical services, used for billing insurance).

A "technical school" also offers vocational education, but these programs are usually focused on "IT" (information technology; computers) careers. They might teach people to write software, install and maintain computer networks, "debug software" (identify and correct problems in software), or "staff" (serve as an employee for) "help desks" (groups of people who provide technical support for hardware or software users).