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This article investigates six pathways through which students possessing initial vocational qualifications can enter higher education in Norway. In Norway, vocational education and training (VET) tracks in upper secondary education are popular nationwide with the youth population, catering to almost…

Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) is a federally funded college readiness program developed to minimize the inequalities in pursuing postsecondary education. This is a systematic review that analyzed 13 studies on the educational outcomes of GEAR UP and ident…

This paper reports a longitudinal study, organized around national surveys and institution-based case studies, of ‘enrichment’ in post-16 colleges across England and Wales. These institutions transect general and vocational education pathways, whose curricula are organized respectively around subjec…

Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are increasingly being adopted as an assessment tool by medicine and other health professions in a bid to enhance competency-based health professional education. EPAs are well-defined professional activities that can be entrusted to students to perform with…

Social research is a critical tool for evaluating issues of public concern, which provides insights into societal trends and potential consequences of actions taken at both individual and collective levels. These studies are frequently conducted through the administration of surveys, which gather da…

This article summarizes the main results of a research on teachers working in secondary school VET in Chile by reviewing the principal features of teacher professional identity, including their beliefs and perceptions about teaching for job and their experiences in the context of the school settings…

This study uses longitudinal analysis of the Taiwan Education Panel Survey to explore background factors of educational tracking experiences among Taiwanese youth and their dynamic associations with job-education match, job satisfaction, and happiness. The sustainable careers concept (De Vos et al.,…

This paper explores the potential of online micro-credentials, a novel learning approach that awards credentials after short educational experiences, as a viable solution to bridging the soft skills gap in the workforce. Using a qualitative foresight research design, the study analyzes and synthesiz…

The participation of females in non-traditional trades has been low. While various explanations are offered in the skills literature for the low representation of females, gender norms tend to be the dominant explanation. Females are often portrayed as conformists to gender norms. This article exami…

Australia’s demand for nurses is exponentially increasing as we are faced with a global pandemic, an ageing population, and an increase in chronic health conditions and mental health issues. This presents a significant challenge for the healthcare system by increasing the absolute number of people n…