OBJECTIVE The period 2000-2011 has seen a decline in medical graduates participating in research. However, significant change has taken place in recent years at the James Cook University (JCU), with a sharp increase in medical graduates enrolling in the Honours course. Our study aims to explore the involvement of JCU medical graduates in research, including 'barriers' and 'enablers' of this inv...

Exploiting variation in welfare reform across states and over time and using relevant comparison groups, this study estimates the effects of welfare reform on an important source of human capital acquisition among women at risk for relying on welfare: vocational education and training. The results suggest that welfare reform reduced enrollment in full-time vocational education and had no signif...

Due to high unemployment rates, people with mental illness are at risk of poverty and are deprived of the social and psychological functions of work, such as the provision of social support, structuring of time, and self-esteem, with a negative effect on their perceived quality of life (QoL). Two distinct processes are held responsible for the low work force participation of people with mental ...

* This paper uses age-specific, postcode-level data on crime statistics from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, postcode-level vocational education and training participation data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) and population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). We appreciate the hel...

We study the evolution of an educational system founded on a hierarchical di®erentiation between vocational and general education, with vocational playing an inferior role in the society. The dynamics are best summarized by the ratio of the fraction of the population in vocational to that in general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of strati ̄cation of the society. We sho...

The study discussed in this paper had two principal objectives. The first was to evaluate the distance model of official vocational education and training offered by means of a virtual learning platform. The second was to establish that both on-site classroom and online distance modes of vocational education and training can be seen as complementary in terms of responding to the majority of mod...

In this paper, we examine the efficiency of the sort done by the Swiss lower secondary school tracking system, looking at students’ outcomes in dual vocational education and training (VET)—the most common education type at the upper secondary level in the country. We discuss a simple Ricardian model about the process of school tracking based on the absolute advantage (i.e., the ability) of stud...

Over the last 20 years, the voice of business and its impact upon Australian vocational education have transformed. These changes range from enterprise reluctance to be involved through to industry determining what is taught and assessed, and how, as well as the principles for administering vocational education, and attempts to use vocational education to reform the schooling system. These tran...

The prosperity of the Chinese financial market and the development of financial information technology have given rise to a new occupation, “online financial marketing”. However, in our higher education, no special course system for “online financial marketing” has been set up, and our vocational education also lacks a set of scientific vocational qualification standard for “online financial ma...

The Dutch secondary education system is divided into a number of pre-vocational education levels and two pre-university education levels. To complete one of these tracks successfully, pupils have to pass several examinations. These examinations are a mixture of national and school-based assessments in a number of subjects. This paper will address the specific goals and characteristics of the na...