A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper provides a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational systems: school-based education, a ...

the aim of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of technical and vocational university students. technical and vocational higher education centers are among the centers providing students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. entrepreneurship and business skills are the courses that students are required to pass during t...

In The Netherlands a curriculum project is carried out in which a new mathematics program is developed for vocational education (engineering, age group 16-20). Because mathematics should really support the vocational courses, it was decided to develop mathematical concepts starting in the context of engineering. Many mathematical issues that are taken for granted in general education are of no ...

Its purpose is to contribute to the development and improvement of technical and vocational education in Member States. UNEVOC works in three programme areas: • Programme Area A deals with the international exchange of experience and the promotion of studies on policy issues. It is devoted to system development in technical and vocational education. • Programme Area B is devoted to strengthenin...

This paper sketches a comparative-institutional approach that seeks to enhance our understanding of internationalization and the resultant national dynamics of institutional change in vocational and higher education systems. Focusing on change at the nexus of general and vocational skill formation institutions, we discuss shifts in the relationship between higher education and vocational traini...

The objective of this study was to identify factors associated with a positive outcome of vocational rehabilitation, and to identify groups that have been successfully rehabilitated in a Swedish rural area. In this study vocational rehabilitation is defined as medical multidisciplinary, psychological, social and occupational activities aiming to re-establish, among sick or injured people with p...

The study analyses the historical development of vocational literacy in basic education and Non-Formal Vocational Education (NFVE) in Mozambique, as well as current challenges and contradictions. The theoretical lens of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) is employed in the study. Methodologically the study was executed through an analysis of oral, printed and e-resources produced by the...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to examine the level of health-related knowledge and its predictors among vocational college students in China. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. METHODS A survey was performed to collect data on heath-related knowledge and potential risk factors among 708 students in four higher vocational colleges at Nanyang, Henan, China. Linear regression models were con...

We study the evolution of an educational system founded on a hierarchical di®erentiation between vocational and general education, with vocational playing an inferior role in the society. The dynamics are best summarized by the ratio of the fraction of the population in vocational to that in general education, which we interpret as a measure of the degree of strati ̄cation of the society. We sho...

Enterprise governance for higher education can be viewed as arrangements that include a variety of university assets in order to support the strategy in achieving the goals and objectives. In the implementation governance in university there are factors that affect good governance which are individual or groups. These factors are then called an enabler of enterprise governance. In the previous ...