has part educational program vocational education objective vocational education program An educational plan specification that has a vocational objective specification as part. Vocational education programs are designed for learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies specific to a particular occupation, trade, or class of occupations or trades. Such programs may have work-based components (e.g. apprenticeships, dual-system education programmes). Successful completion of such programs leads to labor market-relevant, vocational qualifications acknowledged as occupationally-oriented by the relevant national authorities and/or the labor market. William R. Hogan http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/international-standard-classification-of-education-isced-2011-en.pdf vocational education plan specification