In this paper, the authors present an overview of proposals to revise educational provision for the public health/health improvement workforce in Scotland. Debates and tensions engendered by these proposals are outlined. The authors suggest that work-based approaches to learning are ideally suited t…
Workplace learning has developed as a field both of practice and of research over the past decade. The increase in interest is due in part to heightened awareness that workplace knowledge and skills contribute to enterprise and national competitiveness, but it is also due to an increased focus on th…
Because workers must be prepared to constantly update their skills and reeducate themselves for new skills, lifelong learning must be a goal for every teacher and student. The curriculum provided during educational experiences should pave the way for attainment of this goal. This is particularly tru…
This paper reviews reflective practice and associated terms and suggests an approach that can encompass the criticality required in professional education and training in relation to current agendas for health promotion. Although reflective practice is an accessible notion and has achieved great pop…
In the 1990s, federal legislation authorizing funding for secondary vocational education, increasingly called career and technical education (CTE), began to mandate accountability requirements such as improved academic achievement. These requirements have necessitated a search for ways to integrate …
Source:British Journal of Industrial Relations
(2003)
This article evaluates the British system of NVQs, focusing on their capacity to increase skill levels. It reviews the way NVQs were designed and argues that they are ill-equipped to encourage knowledge and skills, partly because they simply replicate the weaknesses which currently exist in the labo…
A study of key phases in apprenticeship (such as the choice of a trade, the learning of occupational know-how or the opportunities open during and after apprenticeship) and a comparison between young people with different types of schooling (in five "trades" in Bamako, Mali) serve as the basis for a…
A successful school-to-work transition is a precursor of promising career development. In the present longitudinal study we investigated whether academic self-efficacy beliefs and grades in school at the ages of 12-15 would be associated with unemployment and job satisfaction at the age of 21. We fo…
Source:British Journal of Educational Studies
(2003)
Government policy aims at a 'seamless web' of learning provision. This is exemplified in a local Learning and Skills Council supported by work on widening participation to higher education (HE) in another London sub-region. The emerging system described is comprehended as a whole from 'Foundation Le…
Employment and training programs aimed at women and men without 4-year college degrees address the needs of the majority of the working population. Noncollege women tend to hold lower-paying jobs with fewer opportunities for advancement, compared with the opportunities noncollege men have. One type …
