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The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE): A qualitative study exploring the healthcare student’s experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper relates to delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors. Preparing students for the workplace requires inclusion of academic knowledge, workplace skills and practical vocational experience.
Fidment, Susan
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The role of vocational education in the transmission of gender segregation from education to employment: Switzerland and Bulgaria compared

open access: yesJournal for Labour Market Research, 2018
Previous comparative research has uncovered considerable cross-country differences in occupational gender segregation. There is, however, a lack of research on the role of educational systems in the creation of gender segregation and gendered school-to ...
Melina Heiniger, Christian Imdorf
doaj   +1 more source

A skills beyond school review of Korea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Higher level vocational education and training (VET) programmes are facing rapid change and intensifying challenges. What type of training is needed to meet the needs of a changing economies? How should the programmes be funded?
Kis, Viktória, Park, Eunah
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Medium and Long-Term Returns to Professional Education in Switzerland: Explaining Differences between Occupational Fields

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2019
In Switzerland, initial vocational education and training graduates may enter a track of the tertiary system called professional education. Professional education represents about one-third of the tertiary system, includes numerous vocational training ...
Fabian Sander, Irene Kriesi
doaj   +1 more source

Imparting work based skills on vocational courses, pedagogy of using industrial simulation in surveying education: a study of a model run at Sheffield Hallam University in 2011 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper relates to delivering vocational higher education to prospective building surveyors. Preparing students for the workplace requires inclusion of academic knowledge, workplace skills and practical vocational experience.
Mclean, Simon
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Apprentices' perceptions of quality in the Swiss initial vocational education and training dual system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The quality of education and training is a key factor in explaining apprentices’ motivations and helping sustain their efforts in acquiring the necessary skills for their future occupation. Yet, the perceived quality of initial vocational education and training (IVET) may vary according to the learning location and the occupational fields.
Sauli, Florinda   +2 more
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Labour Market Success of Initial Vocational Education and Training Graduates: A Comparative Study of Three Education Systems in Central Europe [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Vocational Education & Training, 2021
This paper compares within-country programmes of initial vocational education and training (IVET) in Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany and their outcomes.
Sabine Hoidn, Vít Šťastný
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Students with a foreign background in Italian Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) and the access to Italian as Second Language

open access: yesIAFOR Journal of Education, 2017
This paper is based on the results of a 2014–2015 quantitative survey on a sample of 1,840 foreign students and 1,835 Italian students, of which, 41% of the Italians and 35% of those of foreign origins interviewed were female. The overall age was between
Luisa Daniele
doaj   +1 more source

Relationships between vocational training centres and industrial SMEs in the Basque Country: A Regional Innovation System approach

open access: yesIntangible Capital, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this document is to analyse the reach of the relation between vocational training (VT) centres and industrial SMEs in the Basque Country (Spain), and its influence on innovation processes developed by companies.Design/methodology/
Eneka Albizu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Labor Market Outcomes of Academic versus Vocational Education after Bologna [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Academic education is generally rewarded by employers, but what happens to graduates if they are trained for two years less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study?
Neugebauer, Martin, Weiss, Felix
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