INTRODUCTION This article reports findings of a project funded by the Australian National Council for Vocational Education Research. The project explores solutions to current and projected skills shortages within the health and community services sector, from a vocational education and training perspective. Its purpose is to locate, analyse and disseminate information about innovative models of...

By comparing three types of hybrid organizations-18th-century scientific academies, 19th-century institutions of higher vocational education, and 20th-century industrial research institutes-it is the purpose here to answer the question of why new hybrid organizations are continuously formed. Traditionally, and often implicitly, it is often assumed that emerging groups of potential knowledge use...

It is widely believed that a dual system of vocational education provides an efficient way to learn vocational skills and to lay the basis for an efficient insertion in the labour market. In the Netherlands students can choose between vocational schools and an education within the apprenticeship system. In this paper we analyze whether in the long run workers with an apprenticeship do better th...

This article discusses the elements and implications of cognitive style and a study of students in postsecondary industrial technology and vocational education programs that relates several areas where cognitive styles may influence instructional design. Technology education, industrial technology, industrial arts, and vocational education programs are some of the mechanisms by which secondary ...

The prosperity of the Chinese financial market and the development of financial information technology have given rise to a new occupation, “online financial marketing”. However, in our higher education, no special course system for “online financial marketing” has been set up, and our vocational education also lacks a set of scientific vocational qualification standard for “online financial ma...

Numerous public and private organizations and agencies conduct adult agricultural education programs. Many of the public sector programs can be traced to the Smith-Lever and Smith-Hughes Acts enacted in 1914 and 1917, respectively, that created the Cooperative Extension System and provided federal funds for vocational-technical education in agriculture. Adult agricultural education programs tha...

This paper analyzes the experiences and lessons of courses offered by vocational education, points out the problems of the curriculum designing and poses some suggestions and measures of the curriculum designing offered for vocational education.

This paper concentrates on a strategy that uses schoolwide data to identify secondary schools where students’ academic achievement has been improving at a relatively fast rate, and other schools where it has not. Schools with the most involvement in vocational education can be selected from the group where achievement is increasing relatively fast, and from the group where it is not. These two ...

Medical education research has focused almost entirely on the education of future physicians. In comparison, findings on other health-related occupations, such as medical assistants, are scarce. With the current study, we wanted to examine the knowledge-is-power hypothesis in a real life educational setting and add to the sparse literature on medical assistants. Acquisition of vocational knowle...