Actividades que tienden a proporcionar la capacidad práctica, el saber y las actitudes necesarias para el trabajo en una ocupación o grupo de ocupaciones en cualquier rama de la actividad económica.
Quality is not a new issue in vocational training, but the use of international standards within institutions in order to create new institutional cultures is. In the framework of the implementation of total quality management strategies, more and more Latin American and Caribbean vocational training institutions are using international standards, quite successfully, to certify the quality of their training processes.