Received: 02-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. GJVTE-22-66086; Editor assigned: 04-Feb-2022, Pre QC No. GJVTE-22-66086 (PQ); Reviewed: 18-Feb-2022, QC No. GJVTE-22-66086; Revised: 25-Feb-2022, Manuscript No. GJVTE-22-66086 (R); Published: 04-Mar-2022, DOI: 10.15651/2437-1890.22.10.001
There are many post-secondary options available to graduates and two of them are colleges and vocational schools. The basic difference between these two is theory and practice. A university typically teaches general academic knowledge and research skills, while a vocational school teaches applied and practical skills such as carpentry, automotive mechanics and hairdressing.
Vocational Education
Vocational education tends to be theoretical training but above all practical training. For example, if you are learning to be a carpenter, you will spend some time being shown how to do a job, but you will spend more time doing it. Instead of sitting in a classroom, you'll actually be building something that fits the definition of "learning by doing".
Vocational students are immersed in specialized training focused on their future career roles. This is recognized by employers. These employers provide job opportunities to apprentices because they see that students with vocational training are job-ready. In this section, Techtorium invests a lot of time and effort to connect students with potential employers through employment pathways.
Vocational school graduates tend to jump into the professions they trained carpentry students above to find work as carpenters. They are valuable employees for these industries as their professional training ensures that they have the exact knowledge needed to succeed. A carpentry graduate not only understands the principles of carpentry, but can also demonstrate that they have successfully applied them in a variety of ways.
Academic Education
On the other hand, higher education focuses on reading documents, disseminating information and discussing documents in groups. These also tend to be an emphasis on writing, although some disciplines focus on this more than others. Either way, however, academic schools focus more on understanding concepts within a theoretical framework than applying them in a real-world setting.
College graduates tend to have broader, less applied skills. The extent to which they possess these skills varies depending on their level of education. A liberal arts graduate will have strong writing and research skills, but not as many applied skills as a law, medical or hard science graduate. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing, especially if someone isn't sure what they want to do with their life. Although a graduate from a university does not have as many obvious options as a graduate from a professional school, he is also better equipped for broader and more theoretical jobs such as work as an analyst, journalist or many other jobs that require critical thinking about applied skills.
Academic qualifications refer to the certificates, diplomas or degrees that a person has received showing that he has completed a program of study. The term educational attainment is a more general term than educational attainment. It sometimes includes both educational and professional qualifications.
But sometimes the term education can refer to both academic and professional qualifications. In such cases, the key difference between educational qualification and teaching qualification is that academic qualification is not related to actual training whereas teaching qualification can sometimes be related to actual training.