Despite huge incidence of vocational education and training (VET) reforms, we know more about good VET systems than how … to implement them. In this review, we develop a determinant framework for VET implementation that combines theories and … frameworks related to policy and general education reform, plus VET theory and the few existing VET implementation frameworks. We …

status that the literature has greatly neglected so far. We focus on the dual Vocational Education and Training (dual VET … approach to test whether growing knowledge of the education system increases the social status of dual VET in Switzerland. Our … results, which focus on immigrant students, confirm that the social status of dual VET increases with these students length of …

Employer engagement is a critical part of vocational education and training (VET). However, we know little about forms … of employer engagement in the implementation of VET reforms. Employers can be advisors, or can be given roles and … responsibilities throughout the cycle of VET processes: helping design curricula, providing workplace training during VET application …

such an approach and apply it to construct three ideal types of vocational education and training (VET) programs. We build … education and employment systems in VET. The first ideal type, with a maximal linkage, entails equal power-sharing between … actors from the two systems. We expect such a VET program to have the most favorable youth labor market outcome. In contrast …

training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general … education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the labour market of 15- to 24-year-olds. We complement the existing … effects regressions on unbalanced panel data of 35 countries from 2004 to 2014. We find that school-based VET hinders youth …

This paper analyses how the social status of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland has changed over … time and how it differs across population groups. The applied measure for the social status of VET compares the cognitive … abilities (measured by PISA scores) of prospective students in a VET programme to those in an academic baccalaureate programme …