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...

this study is performed in order to study the effect of technical- vocational training on trainee productivity in industrial sector of khorasan and preferring suitable solutions in this field. so labor productivity model was estimated for khorasan industry in period 1985 to 2004. in this model, effects of different variables were investigated on productivity of labor, variables such as: relatio...

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...

Like many domains within vocational psychology, vocational rehabilitation is a dynamic enterprise, constantly evolving in response to contemporary issues, the changing demographics of the work force, and to alterations in health and public policy. Although psychologists have been involved in vocational rehabilitation for almost a century, the area is ultimately multidisciplinary, and profession...

OBJECTIVE A previous longitudinal study in rural New Hampshire showed that community mental health center clients with co-occurring schizophrenia-spectrum and substance use disorders (SZ/SUD) improved steadily and substantially over 10 years. The current study examined 7 years of prospective clinical and functional outcomes among inner-city Connecticut (CT) community mental health center client...

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...