off the job training

…The formation and improvement of a person's professional ability is achieved through school education, which provides academic education, vocational training, which mainly provides practical skills, and on-the-job training, which allows people to learn while working. Usually, education and training conducted at schools and vocational training facilities are called off-the-job training (off-JT), and on-the-job training (OJT). These education and training systems have come to be carried out on an organized and large scale, replacing the apprenticeship system for training skilled craftsmen that was dominant at the handicraft stage, due to the realization of complex machines and equipment with the development of industrial technology, the appearance of a wide variety of products, and the development of management techniques centered on large-scale management. …

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "off the job training" is listed below.

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…人間の職業的能力の形成･向上は，学科教育を授ける学校教育，主として実技を授ける職業訓練，仕事をしながら習熟する職場訓練などによって達成される。通例，学校や職業訓練施設で行われる教育訓練をoff‐JT(off the job training)，職場訓練をOJT(on the job training)と呼び区別している。これらの教育訓練制度は，工業技術の発達に伴う複雑な機械･装置の実現，多様かつ多種類の商品の登場，大規模経営を中心とする管理技術の発達などによって，手工業段階で支配的であった熟練職人養成のための徒弟制度に代わって，組織的かつ大規模に行われるようになってきた。…

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