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A number of approaches to occupational analysis are reviewed and categorised. Their respective strengths and weaknesses are illuminated by considering a number of critiques of each approach. The concept of role is introduced and defined, a distinction being drawn between a functionalist and an inter…

Apprenticeship has a long history of success in developing skills. Despite this potential for adult education, the tacit core of apprenticeship has made it difficult to derive educational principle. This paper addresses the nature of this tacit core by intuiting generic principles from case studies …

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The plight of students with disabilities has been in the spotlight for several years now. Recent legislation has made vocational training, including students with disabilities, a mainstay in most secondary schools. While there are studies that prove that training in a vocational setting does have a …

This article reports on a case study to evaluate a variety of learning models, currently being implemented within vocational education, at a large private boys’ College located near Brisbane, Queensland in Australia. This programme was designed to enable students to complete a traineeship or apprent…

Post-compulsory teacher training in England has been under review, and standards developed by the Further Education Staff Development Forum were to be launched in January 1999 as a precursor to a mandatory qualification for teachers in further education in England and Wales. Until now, many further …

Several studies into the response of Australian teachers, in the vocational education and training (VET) sector, to the implementation of competency-based education (CBE) have identified the role of judgement in competency-based assessment as a source of confusion and distress for assessors. This ar…

Vocational educators and trainers directly face the challenges of changing structures of work and economy in “new times”. This paper discusses changing relations of competence, learning and innovation in contemporary workplaces and the implications these have for vocational education and training (V…

In Hong Kong the secondary school curriculum has long been criticized for its heavy emphasis on academic performance and examination-oriented approaches to subject learning. As a consequence, pupils in Hong Kong only possess knowledge and skills that could carry them through examinations. They lack …

This article focuses on the evolving concept of the training market and views about those factors which necessitate intervention in the market. User choice in apprenticeships and traineeships is the latest policy initiative in Australia to increase the responsiveness of the vocational education and …