Everything about Vocational University totally explained
A
vocational university (professional university, or college of higher vocational studies) is an institution of
higher education and sometimes
research, which provides both
tertiary and sometimes
quaternary education and grants
academic degrees at all levels (
bachelor,
master, and sometimes
doctorate) in a variety of subjects. (More precisely a vocational university grants
Professional degrees like Professional Bachelor's degree, Professional Master's degree and Professional doctorates).
Education
The education which takes place at vocational universities combines teaching of both practical skills and theoretical expertise. Higher vocational education might be contrasted with education in a usually broader
scientific field, which might concentrate on
theory and abstract
conceptual knowledge. This has to do with the fact that, in the
Middle Ages, an educational institution was called a
university only if a certain classical of subjects was taught (including,
philosophy,
medicine and
theology). In modern times, other subjects, namely
natural and
engineering sciences, became more important — but still, institutions of
tertiary education focusing on these and not offering the classical canon were denied the prestigious denomination "university", so they'd to use the general word (High School in English)
Hochschule in
German,
Haute Ecole in
French (
Belgium and
Switzerland),
Hogeschool in
Dutch,
Høyskole in
Norwegian, etc.
There exist vocational universities of applied sciences (also named
polytechnics or institutes of technology), vocational universities of liberal arts, etc. In recent years, many vocational universities have received full university status, such as the
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna,
Austria (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, formerly Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien), or the
Örebro University,
Sweden (formerly Örebro Högskola). There are also some establishments which now have full university status, but continue to use their former names, such as the
Royal Institute of Technology in
Stockholm,
Sweden.
Vocational universities by country
- Vocational Academy of Art (Zhejiang)
- Fashion Institute (Ningbo)
- Guangsha College of Applied Construction Technology (Zhejiang)
- Economic and Trade Polytechnic (Zhejiang)
- Yuying College of Vocational Technology (Zhejiang)
» See Ammattikorkeakoulu (translated University of Applied Sciences
). Do not grant licentiate or doctorate degrees.
Hong Kong
College of Higher Vocational Studies of the City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education
» See Vocational universities in The Netherlands
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