Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This article reviews national policy in work-based learning for young people during the mid-1990s in the United Kingdom. It is divided into three main sections. A brief contextual section covers the period of implementation of a national framework of post-compulsory qualifications prior to 1994 and …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This article critically assesses the role of Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) in the development and delivery of Modern Apprenticeships (MAs). It begins by reviewing the genesis of TECs as a new form of policy delivery mechanism designed to re-create a market-led training system. It explains …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This article considers the impact of the introduction of Modern Apprenticeships on employers’ recruitment practices and training provision at intermediate skills level. The main source of data is the findings of a study conducted during the early stages of the implementation of the initiative. Whils…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This article explores the potential role of further education (FE) colleges in the delivery of Modern Apprenticeships. It reflects upon FE’s role in traditional apprenticeships and examines, through a case study of Modern Apprenticeships in a large manufacturing company in partnership with two FE co…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
Governments are encouraging enterprises to enhance their expenditure on vocational education and training to assist with maintaining and developing further national skill bases, while sharing the cost with those enterprises. However, there are clear differences between what government intends and en…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
Technical and Further Education Colleges are the main providers of formal vocational education in Australia. This article investigates the perceived contribution of these Colleges to the development of skilled trade-persons. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected from apprentice trade…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This paper seeks to explore the different perspectives held by those joining in the work-based learning experience. First it examines the concept of partnerships in work-based learning in more detail and considers the various partners who may be involved. It also discusses the types of learning that…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
The merits of apprenticeship can be considered from two standpoints, according to whether it is viewed as vocational education or job training. In the first case, the relevant comparison is to full-time vocational schooling; in the second, to the youth labour market, including employment, unemployme…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
Many approaches to learning rely on behaviourist and individualist assumptions, are dependent on transmission pedagogies or are associated with cognitive science accounts of expertise. Drawing upon recent developments in activity theory that have resulted in learning new interpretations of the ‘zone…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1998)
This article explores the concept of apprenticeship as a model for learning at and about work in the late 20th century. The authors propose that social and activity theories of learning can usefully underpin a reconceptualisation of apprenticeship generally, and the recent British initiative the Mod…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
1996 marked the tenth anniversary of the Review of Vocational Qualifications undertaken by Oscar de Ville (now Sir Oscar) and the setting-up of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ), of which he was the first Chairman. National Vocational Qualifications and Scottish Vocational Qu…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
This article provides a detailed and accessible account of the contemporary structure of the German system for vocational education and training and of some of the main issues and concerns causing current stresses within it. First, we outline the so-called dual system for initial vocational training…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
Changes being made to vocational education and training (VET) in Australia to enable industry to be more internationally competitive include making training more responsive to industry and client needs, delivering work skills to specific industry standards, making entry level training more flexible …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
This paper explores the transformative potential of cultural change in one locale for other cultural worlds, examining how participants in a particular cultural transformation may become influential when positioned as strategic agents in other contexts. A collaborative action research study in teach…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1997)
In the last decade in Australia there has been a significant emphasis placed on vocational education and training. More recently within this context there has been renewed interest in apprenticeship training which has both formal learning (in a technical and further education college), and informal …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1996)
This paper raises questions about the training debate today in Australia through its examination of the factors, among them the roles of government and professional associations, that influenced the development of engineering technician training and education in New South Wales in the 1950s and 1960…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1996)
A central claim made for National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) concerns their role in providing the skills which employers and industry are said to need. This claim is challenged through the examination of a range of critical studies which indicate that employers are neither centrally involved i…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1996)
This article examines how different forms of vocational knowledge are constructed from social sources. Using a Vygotskian framework it is claimed that in different ways vocational knowledge is shaped by history, community and ontogeny through microgenetic development. This process of ongoing problem…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1996)
In 1993, the United Kingdom launched yet another new initiative to revitalise youth training, but this time, rather than choosing a title which conjures up the flexible workplace of the future, it chose to delve back into the industrial past and introduced Modern Apprenticeship. Piloted for a year i…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(1996)
The Modern Apprenticeship programme in the United Kingdom has been broadly welcomed by employers, training providers, and commentators on the vocational education and training scene. A shift in policy focus has been detected from an emphasis on 'outcomes' (qualifications), which has come to dominate…
