As primary career influencers, parents must support adolescent children in navigating evolving and increasingly challenging employment landscapes. Using a capitals lens, this study explores secondary school parents’ capacity to provide informed career advice and their perceptions on factors known to…
This systematic review explores the challenges and facilitators encountered by students with a migrant background in accessing, participating in, and completing Vocational Education and Training programmes across Europe. It synthesises existing research to understand how VET can support the integrat…
Law determines much of education, from early years through to higher education, both public and private, yet as a discipline it has rarely been expressly identified in British education research. This paper explores this paradox, through a mixed review: a chronological review of educational research…
Dual vocational education and training (VET) has recently been introduced in Catalonia, as in the whole of Spain, and it should be the only VET system in the near future. However, Dual VET still coexists with traditional VET. The former has much more on-the-job training, companies are more involved …
There is an increasing policy emphasis on supporting diversity and inclusive practice, as well as graduate employability for higher education students. Work-based learning (WBL), placement learning, or work integrated learning (WIL) is a key component of many undergraduate degree programmes. However…
The article discusses the concept of biographical learning and reviews previous research on the subject. Several tensions between different versions of the concept are recognized, and a wide range of research areas in which the concept has been used are identified and presented. The general idea in …
In line with the Lisbon Agenda, set by the European Council in the year 2000, European governments formulated ambitious plans to halve the level of early school-leavers by 2012. This paper outlines the dropout prevention measures in the Netherlands and analyzes their influence at both the individual…
A cooperative education experience (or internship placement) is an essential component of the curricula of vocational higher education. The efficacy of internship placements has become one of the major concerns facing those who develop education curricula. The purpose of this longitudinal study was …
Social moderation involves teachers gathering together to discuss their judgements of the quality of student work and to reach agreement regarding the standard awarded. This qualitative study conducted over a three-year period investigated the social practice of moderation and the influence on teach…
The upgrading of vocational studies in general - and vocational education and training programmes and qualifications in particular - has never been so high on the political agenda. Current policy initiatives include reconstructing Modern Apprenticeships, reorganising the 14-19 phase to enhance vocat…
