General overview of changes in the structure and contents of education in Russia Education in Russia and trends in global development New social and economic requirements to the Russian system of education Observance of the state guarantees of accessibility of quality education Creation of conditions for the improvement in the quality of general education Creation of conditions for the improvem...

It is important to investigate the effectiveness of vocational high schools since governance expenditure on them was large compared to general high schools. This paper evaluates the impact of vocational high school on labor market in Korea. As a measure of the efficacy of the vocational high school, I use the wage data from the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). Restricting the datase...

Vocational education in high schools has frequently been stigmatized as an anachronistic, dead-end path for students. We use data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey of 1988 to examine claims that students on a vocational track would benefit from a more academically rigorous education. Clearly, selection bias confounds attempts to untangle the effects of academic tracking on income ...

Results are reported from the National Longitudinal Transition Study of Special Education Students. Dropout rates were high: 30% of students with disabilities dropped out of high school, and another 8% dropped out before entering high school. The average dropout with disabilities was 18 years old at the time of leaving but had earned less than half the credits needed to graduate. Employment suc...

Vocational education and training (VET) is under reform in many Nordic countries. This article explores uses of developmental work research (DWR) approach in reforming and transforming practices of VET. DWR was initiated in Finland in the 1980s to enhance understanding about learning in organizations. The aim of this article is to elaborate the approach by examining studies made in the field of...

* This paper uses age-specific, postcode-level data on crime statistics from the Victorian Crime Statistics Agency and the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, postcode-level vocational education and training participation data from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) and population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). We appreciate the hel...

In many respects, the distinctions between community colleges and proprietary schools are few. Proprietary schools (also referred to as career colleges and for-profit colleges) feature an array of vocational, technical, and business programming, as well as provide opportunities to complete general education courses (Hittman, 1995). Similarly, given that the mission of community colleges is to p...

Vocational training and general education are the two predominant forms of secondary schooling around the world. Most studies that compare the e¤ect of vocational and general education on labor market outcomes in the cross-section su¤er from selection bias since less able students are more likely to enroll in vocational programs. To avoid the bias caused by non-random selection, this paper expl...

Employment specialists play a pivotal role in assisting youth and adults with disabilities find and retain jobs. This requires a unique combination of skills, competencies and personal attributes. While the fields of career counseling, vocational rehabilitation and special education transition have documented the ideal skills sets needed to achieve desired outcomes, the authors characterize the...