OBJECTIVES The present study aims to investigate the synergistic effects of cognitive remediation training (CRT) on Integrated Supported Employment (ISE). ISE blends individual placement support service with work-related social skills training for Chinese people suffering from schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. METHOD Ninety participants with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders...

Background Unemployment rates are high amongst people with severe mental illness, yet surveys show that most want to work. Vocational rehabilitation services exist to help mentally ill people find work. Traditionally, these services have offered a period of preparation (Prevocational Training), before trying to place clients in competitive (i.e. open) employment. More recently, some services ha...

The vocational training process is a complex which influenced both by students’ hereditary predispositions, motivation and interests teachers’ competencies. In the of professional in study programmes such as: Curricular Leisure Time Motor Activities (CLTMA), Sports Performance (SP) Physical Therapy Functional Education Re-education (PTFER) within Faculty Movement, Sport Health Sciences at “Vasi...

From an economic model in which education and growth reinforced each other, South Korea has developed a pathological equilibrium holding back social progress. Low labour productivity skills mismatch undermine the prospects of country, sharp rises inequality ever more dualised market erode cohesion. Governments different political persuasion have recognised these challenges, they thought to rein...

It is widely believed that a dual system of vocational education provides an efficient way to learn vocational skills and to lay the basis for an efficient insertion in the labour market. In the Netherlands students can choose between vocational schools and an education within the apprenticeship system. In this paper we analyze whether in the long run workers with an apprenticeship do better th...

Although vocational schooling is responsible for educating a large share of students in the world today, there is little evidence about what factors matter for vocational student learning. Using data on approximately 1,400 vocational students in one eastern province in China, we employ a student fixed effects model to identify whether teacher enterprise experience—believed to be one of the most...

This article explores the empowerment of women through vocational training programmes. The empowerment of rural women is seen as the only means of poverty eradication. Any economic step of empowering of these poor women will make provision to link the nature of empowerment with the skill training required for efficiently running it. It also discusses the outcome of vocational training, type of ...