VET has been classified according to its aims, which are
directly linked to the labour market. ISCED might serve as a salient example here
since it classifies VET by its labour-market orientation. This definition, however,
makes it somewhat difficult to differentiate between VET and general education
since both contain elements that are important for the labour market and others
that are more general for citizenship and social life. It is unlikely that any social
survey contains sufficient information about the content of learning to enable
differentiations to be made between aspects of learning related to the labour market and those that provide more general skills and competences (Jenkins and
Sabates, 2007).