This paper sketches a comparative-institutional approach that seeks to enhance our understanding of internationalization and the resultant national dynamics of institutional change in vocational and higher education systems. Focusing on change at the nexus of general and vocational skill formation institutions, we discuss shifts in the relationship between higher education and vocational traini...

Vocational training and general education are the two predominant forms of secondary schooling around the world. Most studies that compare the e¤ect of vocational and general education on labor market outcomes in the cross-section su¤er from selection bias since less able students are more likely to enroll in vocational programs. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, this paper expl...

In The Netherlands a curriculum project is carried out in which a new mathematics program is developed for vocational education (engineering, age group 16-20). Because mathematics should really support the vocational courses, it was decided to develop mathematical concepts starting in the context of engineering. Many mathematical issues that are taken for granted in general education are of no ...

This retrospective cohort study examined the vocational outcomes in forty-four traumatically brain injured patients. Patient files selected were limited to those who were seen for the development of an original Life Care Plan and were subsequently seen at least once for a complete update of that plan. Patients who were retired at the time of the brain injury were excluded. Each participant was ...

OBJECTIVE Identify learning needs of students of Technical Vocational Education (TVE) in Nursing. Qualitative study conducted in a city of São Paulo state. METHOD The subjects were students, teachers and coordinators of TVE and students of the bachelor degree who have had contact with TVE. Data collection was performed by questionnaire socioeconomic and cultural circles about the learning nee...

BACKGROUND Although vocational rehabilitation is a widely advocated intervention for workers on sick leave due to subacute or chronic nonspecific musculoskeletal pain, the optimal dosage of effective and cost-effective vocational rehabilitation remains unknown. The objective of this paper is to describe the design of a non-inferiority trial evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the level of health-related knowledge and its predictors among vocational college students in China. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. METHODS A survey was performed to collect data on heath-related knowledge and potential risk factors among 708 students in four higher vocational colleges at Nanyang, Henan, China. Linear regression models were con...

The scope and the philosophy of the use of New Technologies in education have still to be defined and important pedagogical issues arise. Based on experience of secondary technical vocational education, a general schema for Network-Based Learning with strong learner participation is proposed. The main concept of this approach is that learner participation in the learning process can produce or ...