Glossary

Off-the-job training

Definition: Vocational training undertaken away from the normal work situation.

It is usually only part of a whole training programme, in which it is combined with on-the-job training.

Source: based on Unesco, 1979.

Related term: on-the-job training

Source: Terminology of European education and training policy: a selection of 100 key

terms. CEDEFOP Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2008.

Hyperlink: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/4064_en.pdf