ABSTRACT
We shall return to these considerations, but it is important at this point to look at the possibility of breaking down the global vocabulary of the vocational in higher education into more manageable components in the discussion of higher education specifically. Vocationalism, as we have seen, has commonly come to imply deliberate preparation for employment, but in the highereducation system of the late twentieth century, after considerable institutional and course diversification, such preparation can be seen to relate to employment with different degrees of directness and specificity. To examine these differences is to approach the dichotomies and ambiguities we have considered from another direction.
