That this is being lost to £9,000 courses and vocational degrees designed just to give people a job is a great loss.

Remember also that a vocational degree does not bind you to one particular field of employment.

From health care to music, via media, acting and art, students study highly vocational degrees.

In the near future, the distinction between academic and higher vocational degrees will disappear.

Some vocational degrees, in subjects like computer gaming, are prized by recruiters.

A doctor of philosophy is not a vocational degree.

Also, does medicine not officially count as a vocational degree?

If you are applying for a vocational degree (say, medicine or architecture), there's a good chance it will be looked at.

Better a vocational degree in media studies than the old boy network favourites.

If they are doing a vocational degree will they get a job in that vocation at the end of the course?