The use of social media has become popular in the professional IT sector, requiring specific skills to exploit their full potential. Based on our model on relevant social media skills we report on a study testing related proficiencies of IT vocational students. From this we derive three technology-enhanced training instruments to foster the skills in vocational education processes.

Over the last 20 years, the voice of business and its impact upon Australian vocational education have transformed. These changes range from enterprise reluctance to be involved through to industry determining what is taught and assessed, and how, as well as the principles for administering vocational education, and attempts to use vocational education to reform the schooling system. These tran...

This paper presents a chronology of legislative mandates for vocational rehabilitation, discusses their impact on occupational therapy, and describes relationships between special educators and vocational agencies. The Career Training Workshop, a prevocational program developed and used successfully by a North Carolina school district, is described here as an example of one effort to prepare st...

This study was commissioned by the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) under its Education Innovation Program (EIP). This paper reports on aspects of the quantitative component of the study. The aims of this component of the study were to: a) identify Indigenous secondary school students' aspirations; b) elucidate the relation of key variables to Indigenous students' aspiration...

Introduction As Kazakhstan faces making investments in their extensive vocational education and training system, there are important forces driving the vocational education and training system in Kazakhstan to bring employers more actively into the educational process. The first reason to engage employers is to improve system level governance, to engage social partners in planning for vocationa...

Two documents appear in this issue of SA Family Practice. The role of the General Practitioner,/Family Physician in Hcalth Care Systems, contains the studied and well considered views of the World Organisation of Family Doctors' and the other, The Role of the Doctor in Primarv Health Care'. the views of a broad ipectrum of leading S African cloctors. In 1992 we hope to move both nationally and ...