Vocational education is an indispensable part in China’s educational system as well as an important basis of its national economy and social development. Therefore, it is a necessary tendency to strive to develop vocational education in order to deepen China’s reform in educational system and to realize the sustainable development of its education. However, due to the conflicts between China’s ...

21 The article addresses key challenges for the teaching profession, and corresponding institutions, to secure a prominent role in a VET reform, which is devoted to a lifelong learning perspective. These challenges may apply to EU countries but draw on the author’s work in transition countries. The article clarifies the difficulties for vocational education and training to incorporate lifelong ...

The renewed actuality of the theme of entrepreneurship and self-employment training is due to increasing problems in transition from VET to working life at a time where access to paid employment can no longer be taken for granted and where entrepreneurship and selfemployment have, consequently, become more important as potential sources of livelihood. The paper examines this situation through a...

Using data from the 2001-2005 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, and taking account of existing estimates of ability bias and social returns to schooling, I estimate the economic return to various levels of education. Raising high school attainment appears to yield the highest annual benefits, with per-year gains as high as 30 percent (depending on the adjus...

INTRODUCTION Interprofessional practice is recognised as an important element of safe and effective healthcare. However, few studies exist that evaluate how preregistration education contributes to interprofessional competencies, and how these competencies develop throughout the early years of a health professional's career. This quasiexperimental study will gather longitudinal data during stud...

OBJECTIVE Follow-up studies have found that a substantial number of patients with schizophrenia achieve full recovery (i.e., sustained improvement in both symptoms and social/vocational functioning) when examined decades after an index admission. This study addressed recovery during the crucial early course of the illness. METHOD Subjects in their first episode of schizophrenia or schizoaffec...

The presentation reviews more than a decade of investigations undertaken to determine what motivates and what discourages faculty participation in distance education. The presenters describe the evidence that faculty extrinsic and intrinsic conditions both influence willingness to participate. The researchers will also compare the findings of this study with three other studies conducted on fac...

Vocational teachers’ prior occupational experiences are construed as those that will guarantee high-quality teaching in vocational education, although individuals are no longer required to have formal teaching qualifications to be employed as teachers in Sweden. This lack of strict requirements raises the issue of the preparedness of vocational teachers to teach their subject matter. Drawing on...

During the past decade, having higher education has become increasingly common among both males and females in the US and in Europe. In 2006 one quarter of the people had received a degree in higher education in the Netherlands (which includes a university degree or a degree of a School for Higher Vocational Education). In 1981 this was only 18 per cent, see Table 1.1. A person with higher educ...