Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2026)
Vocational education and training involve several actors working together in a skills ecosystem. This paper focuses on the role of training agencies (TAs) in the transitions in this system. They interrelate with schools, workplaces, and the apprentices themselves to enhance the quality of the appren…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Dual vocational training, i.e., the combination of on-the-job training in a company and school-based teaching, is of major importance to a smooth transition into the labor market and for the recruitment of skilled labor in Germany. However, around 30 percent of all training contracts are not success…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This study examines whether adolescents’ interest and self-concept regarding information and communication technologies (ICT) affect their subsequent career paths through the selection into different vocational education and training (VET) programs. Drawing on Eccles’ situated expectancy value theor…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational education and training (VET) systems are characterized by both gender-specific occupational segregation and vertical occupational segmentation, leading to considerable differences in income and employment stability prospects across individual training occupations. For refugee men and wome…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
One of the major challenges of the German vocational education and training (VET) system is the integration of adolescents with unfavorable learning prerequisites, i.e., individuals with no or lower school-leaving certificates or low levels of basic competencies (e.g., reading and mathematics). This…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Social entrepreneurship education is promising to foster entrepreneurial intentions and inspire vocational learners to tackle societal challenges by applying sustainable business models. Challenge-based Learning is an innovative approach for social entrepreneurship education as it encourages learnin…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Women’s participation in Green-STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) careers remains low. This study examined how to remove gender barriers in Environmental-STEM technical and vocational training programs, aiming to expand opportunities for women in the green economy. SENA, Colombia’…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This study examines the long-term effects of two different integrative school measures in lower secondary education — reduced individual learning objectives and accommodations — on post-compulsory educational trajectories in Switzerland. Based on data from the Bernese Longitudinal Study on Integrati…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Degree apprenticeships are a recent innovation in the UK. The overarching goal of the apprenticeship is to achieve a degree, while working and advancing careers. This involves apprentices and employing organisations investing in resources including workplace support for education and new skills. Thi…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This study investigates the effects of the organizational management practice of indirect goal-based control on self-determined participation, learning motivations, unpaid overtime, and dropout intentions among apprentices. Two key theses are examined: the instrumentalization thesis posits that prom…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Many students in vocational education and training (VET) programmes in Norway fail to see the connection with the school-based curriculum content they explore and learn and the tasks they perform during work placements. Consequently, the relevance of various vocational concepts remains invisible whe…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Apprenticeship training is strongly developed in Switzerland. During the Covid-19 pandemic, training firms however faced severe difficulties and many decided not to (or were unable to) hire apprentices. To minimize negative consequences, authorities from the canton of Geneva introduced a series of m…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This study was conducted to explore the relationship between actors of education and employment systems in Nepali Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. The study measured the engagement of actors from both systems in the curriculum process: design, application, and feedback …
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Research has consistently revealed that adolescents with a migration background are more likely to drop out from vocational education and training (VET) at the upper-secondary level than their native peers. While recent research has provided rich empirical evidence of mechanisms leading to dropouts …
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
Taking the perspective of career choice as a lifelong, iterative, constructive, and agentic process, the present study focuses on the development of vocational aspirations of nursing trainees; that is, thoughts about a long-term perspective in nursing (i.e., persistence), ideas of finishing the trai…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
In 2022, one in four vocational education and training (VET) contracts resulted in premature termination—a potential sign of inefficiency in the training of urgently needed skilled professionals. This study focuses on the level of perceived informedness of trainees and its potential influence on dro…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
This study examines whether premature termination of vocational education and training (VET) is more likely when trainees have to make compromises between their realistic occupational aspirations and the occupation for which they are trained in terms of the occupational dimensions of gender type, pr…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
The high rates of premature contract termination (PCT) in vocational education and training (VET) programs have led to an increasing number of studies examining the reasons why adolescents drop out. Since adolescents’ trajectories after a PCT are quite diverse, a thorough assessment of different dro…
Published:Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
(2024)
Career and technical education (CTE) is considered a key academic pathway for sustainable careers in several high-growth industries. However, African–American employees are underrepresented in these industries. Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) may represent invaluable options to …
