Experience of School Transitions: Policies, Practice and Participants

Regardless of overall economic conditions, Canada's youth employment rate has been consistently above that of the adult population. This trend is especially pronounced during times of economic crisis and for young people with low levels of formal education. In response, federal and provincial govern…

School-to-work transitions in Germany for a long time were characterised by the dual system of standardised vocational training which combined company-based apprenticeship training with school-based vocational education. This model was attractive for school leavers because it provided them with secu…

A group of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners in the US now advocate multiple pathways for technical college training and career readiness, a viewpoint that broadens the current college-for-all norm with its single-minded attention to ratcheting-up core academic skills in a rigorous one-tr…

The world faces a growing youth employment crisis: worldwide, young people are three times as likely to be unemployed as adults; and unemployment in youth leads to social exclusion, poor mental and physical health, social unrest, and a pattern of labor disengagement. Research has shown that young pe…

This chapter discusses school-to-work transitions in the framework of apprenticeship-based vocational education and training. It is argued that the strong link to the labour market and the occupation-specific curricula - which are the trademarks of such systems - may facilitate school-to-work transi…