The transition from technical and vocational education and training to higher education is particularly challenging for apprenticeship graduates. These challenges are not only bureaucratic or logistical but also reflect deeper systemic inequalities. In many countries, apprenticeship routes at the up…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational education and training (VET) provides skills to young people at risk of social exclusion and efficiently integrates them into labour markets. In addition to structural-institutional factors identified in the field of comparative political economy, this article illustrates that the success…
Source:Association of Researchers in Construction Management, ARCOM 2025 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference
(2025)
Researcher bias can significantly impact the validity and reliability of studies, particularly when the researcher has a particular interest in the subject. This paper uses a doctoral research project on apprenticeship completion in Ireland's built environment sector as a methodological case study t…
Over the past decade, the proportion of graduates from upper secondary vocational schools who have progressed to higher education (HE) has increased significantly in China. This study adopts a multiple case study methodology to provide an in‐depth examination of the under‐researched role vocational …
Source:From Competition to Coexistence: The Evolution of the Labour Market for College Graduates in the Age of Automation
(2025)
Grounded in “The Race Between Education and Technology,” this book uses multisource data to analyse the evolving labour market for college graduates, interpreting how the relationship between humans and automation shifts from competition to coexistence, which is reshaping skill demand, education pol…
Source:Zentralblatt fur Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitsschutz und Ergonomie
(2025)
Objective: Data from a longitudinal study were used to examine health changes among students in health profession disciplines. Methods: In the summer semesters of 2021 and 2022 a baseline survey (T0) was conducted among students in health-related professions at a university in Germany. Participation…
Vocational high schools (BHS) constitute a popular school type in Austria and are particularly appealing to students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. These five-year schools provide an alternative pathway to a general higher education entrance qualification, combining academic schooling with t…
This study explores the design and evaluation of a pedagogical agent persona (PAP) to enhance project-based learning (PBL) in Ghanaian senior high schools. Using a design-based research approach, a multimodal human-like PAP was developed and tested with 15 students and two teachers. Data from interv…
Pathways to higher education through vocational upper secondary schools (VUSSs) are intended to increase permeability. However, in both VUSSs and general upper secondary schools (GUSSs), participation is socially selective. This article examined differences between GUSS and VUSS students in (a) the …
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the global hotel industry. In early 2020, the occupancy rate of high-end hotels in China dropped by more than 50%. In Shandong Province, the revenue loss exceeded 60%, which raised urgent questions about post-pandemic recovery. This study explore…
