Helping people with schizophrenia to gain competitive employment is a key to improving their quality of life and facilitating their recovery.1 Through a combination of individual placement and support, work-related social skills training, and cognitive remediation training (CRT), our earlier studies demonstrated that 78.8% of people with severe mental illness succeeded in getting competitive em...

This report describes the ongoing Technical and Vocational Vouchers Program (TVVP) in Kenya and provides early results from the intervention. Implementation began in 2008 with the recruitment of approximately 2,160 out-of-school youths (ranging in age from roughly 18 to 30). Study participants were drawn from the Kenya Life Panel Survey, an unusual on-going panel dataset of detailed educational...

This article is an analysis of recent reform of vocational education and training in New Zealand. I argue that the 1999 election of a ‘third way’ government led by the New Zealand Labour Party raised the possibility of the previous administrations’ neo-liberal or market-led vocational education and training strategy being overturned. Evidence suggests little progress has been made towards reali...

This paper represents the results of a survey based analysis on training opportunities conducted under the DigCurV, a project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci programe. The analysis of training opportunities was conducted at the start of the project with the aim to identify, document and analyze the training courses, curriculum, resources that are available for vocational t...