This paper delineates factors influencing the development of policy for vocational education and training (VET), by identifying similarities and differences between policy in the United Kingdom and Australia. Although framed by the same model of economic orthodoxy, significant differences emerge in policy orientation and implementation which are sourced in political and ideological factors foun...

Teachers’ past learning experiences, also referred to as “apprenticeship of observation,” can affect their beliefs and, in turn, teaching practices. This study focused on the apprenticeships observation Chilean novice English teachers and sought identify possible influence views an a foreign language context. The qualitative multiple case design gathered narratives 18 using open-ended survey in...

Prospective social workers in England are increasingly being segregated into different qualification routes. While the justification for this segregation relates to either academic achievement or vocational nature of course, students also end up based on prior advantage, personal circumstances, context and experience. This article examines three main routes contemporary work England: fast-track...

Abstract This paper evaluates traineeships, a voluntary programme of work placement and preparation that aims to help young unemployed people in England compete for jobs apprenticeships. Applying the method local instrumental variables administrative data, we estimate marginal treatment effects on apprenticeship take-up employment. The heterogeneous impacts are then aggregated form an average i...

Because workers must be prepared to constantly update their skills and reeducate themselves for new skills, lifelong learning must be a goal for every teacher and student. The curriculum provided during educational experiences should pave the way for attainment of this goal. This is particularly true for deaf and hard of hearing students. School-to-work (STW) has become an umbrella term for act...

You can impress people at a distance, but you can impact them only up close.—Howard Hendricks Mentorship has always been an integral part of the medical profession. Historically, medical knowledge and philosophy were handed down from one generation to another through close, interactive apprenticeships, many evolving into mentoring relationships. With today’s changing world of medicine, where th...

This paper explores the institution of apprenticeship in Ghana. A model is presented where apprenticeship training is highly idiosyncratic, increasing an individual's productivity in the current firm, but not in any other firm. Still, individuals are willing to fund apprenticeships as they can reap the returns to the specific training of apprenticeship if they manage to acquire the capital requ...

We study the impacts of a major reform to vocational secondary education that aimed move beyond trade-off between providing occupational skills and closing off academic opportunities. Norway’s Reform 94 integrated more general into track, offered students pathway college, increased access apprenticeships. identify through difference-in-discontinuity research design applied linked population reg...