The number of foreign adolescents taking part in vocational training in West Germany has risen considerably since the 1970s. However, analyses applying the IAB employment subsample show that it is much harder for foreigners to find employment after having finished their professional training than it…
Recent years have seen significantly increased interest in learning at the workplace as partial or full compensation for vocationally-oriented education and training in schools and educational institutions. In this general enthusiasm, former scepticism about workplace learning would seem to be burie…
Source:The Changing Face of Further Education: Lifelong Learning, Inclusion and Community Values in Further Education
(2003)
What are the values and policies which are driving the development of Further Education institutions? The rapid expansion and development of the post-compulsory sector of education means that further education institutions have to cope with ever-evolving government policies. This book comprehensivel…
Source:Journal of Educational Computing Research
(2003)
We report the results of research that examined the ways in which a computer simulation of a banking workplace influenced high school students general knowledge and understanding about the world of work. The stance taken is that the society must be seen as joinable and permeable if students are to p…
The term 'social capital' is a way of conceptualizing the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable currency in the social sciences through the very different work of Bourdieu in France, and James Coleman and Robert Putn…
Source:Journal of the American Dietetic Association
(2003)
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a tutorial, student-centered, problem-driven educational strategy adopted by medical and allied health educators to positively influence self-directed learning, critical thinking, and learning behavior. PBL was examined in dietetics education through random assignment…
Source:Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
(2003)
Purpose: To determine the attitudes to research and research training among ophthalmologists and ophthalmology trainees in New Zealand. Methods: A structured, self-administered questionnaire was devised and after preliminary validation a postal survey was sent to all ophthalmologists and ophthalmolo…
The vocational education and training (VET) sector in Victoria went through some significant changes between 1993 and 1998. These changes included amalgamation of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institutes and the creation of a market for the provision of part of the state-funded VET, in whic…
There is a crisis in the training and skills provision of the Channel Island of Jersey's construction industry that has similarities with the situation in Britain. The main problems relate to the unavailability, inappropriateness and narrow focus of skills, the demand-driven and task- or job-specifi…
The second edition of The First Five Years - A framework for Dental Undergraduate Education was published by the General Dental Council (GDC) in August 2002. As with the first edition the overall intention has been to define the scope and content of the undergraduate curriculum. However the second e…
