BACKGROUND/AIM To estimate overweight and obesity prevalence trends in Slovenian adolescents entering secondary schools in the years 2004, 2009 and 2014 and differences in the prevalence between different types of secondary schools. METHODS Data from 17,538 adolescents entering secondary schools (mean age ± standard deviation 15.4 ± 0.5 years) collected during obligatory medical examination i...

In recent years vocational education and training has been recognised as having a crucial impact on worker productivity, enterprise performance and the overall performance of the New Zealand economy. The importance of vocational education and training gives rise to the issue of the efficient operation of educational institutions. In this paper Data Envelopment Analysis is used to derive estimat...

Mechatronics is becoming an important subject in engineering education and vocational training. Accordingly, there is a growing need for innovative learning concepts, capable of supporting the necessary education and training platforms. Integrated learning arrangements where e-learning with simulations and remote laboratories is combined with experiential learning in real laboratories and at wo...

Digital media as support for Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) learning processes have been increasingly tested in recent times. In Germany, for example, the Ministry for Education and Research and others have been supporting projects that develop and evaluate innovative didactical and technological models focussing on “Virtual Learning”, “Learning with Web2.0” or “Mobile Learn...

The process, dialogues, and attitudes of vocational engineering high school students in a web problem-based learning (WPBL) system Kuo-Hung Tseng a , Chi-Cheng Chang b & Shi-Jer Lou c a Graduate Institute of Business and Management, Meiho University, No. 23, Ping Kuang Road, Neipu Hsiang, Pingtung, Taiwan, R.O.C b Department of Technological Application and Human Resource Development, National ...

Foreword igh-school-level vocational educationwhich is supported to a small degree by federal fundsis perennially subject to scrutiny. Given the changing nature of employers' demands, one important question is whether those young men and women who take vocational education courses in high school and go to work rather than to college or other postsecondary education are better off economically...