over the recent decades. Traditionally, training was considered to be job-focused, limited to the technical skills and abilities needed by public employees to perform specific tasks. As such, it was differentiated from education, which was considered to be broader in scope, more oriented toward a range of future jobs and generally provided by institutions of higher learning.
Traditionally, individuals obtained their education first and subsequently received training in the work environment. Recently, the distinction between training, education, and development have become blurred.