Source:Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
(2002)
Growing risks in working lives and in the transition to the first job are supposed to be a core characteristic of labor market changes in the last two decades. However, they cover heterogeneous phenomena that have to be treated separately. Regarding the job entry process among in-firm training diplo…
The paper is a comparative study of the attempts made to revitalize apprenticeship in the UK and Norway in the 1990s. It begins by outlining a cycle of repeated policy failure to develop a high-quality work-based route in the UK and highlights a set of underlying problems that Modern Apprenticeships…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2002)
The role of skills and skills development through training in the contemporary economy is a matter of considerable academic and political debate. Public policy in many countries focuses on the development, through training, of what are seen as a high skills employment and business environment (Brown…
Over the last 20 years there has been increasing interest in work-based learning in the UK business sector as a means to improve and increase the skills of the UK workforce. The motivation is to assist the development of a highly competitive national economy within the global marketplace. Allied to …
The process of designing a pedagogic model for work-based learning within a virtual university is not a simple matter of using 'off the shelf' good practice. Instead, it can be characterised as an evolutionary process that reflects the backgrounds, skills and experiences of the project partners. Wit…
Source:Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
(2002)
This article investigates a tension in mentoring in secondary Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in England and Wales. Neither the ITT Standards nor the literature clarify which mentor strategies can be effective in the particular domain of the post-16 classroom. A case study was conducted on a sample o…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2002)
The research reported in this work concerned access to experiential learning offered in the form of work-based learning in a science and technology degree programme. The work-based learning comprises work placements within science and technology institutions relevant to the student’s discipline of a…
Source:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2002)
This article presents a case study of a particular instance of business involvement in education, the industry-sponsored non-profit National Academy Foundation (NAF). While in the USA participation by employers in schools and educational programmes has increased in the last decade, the federal fundi…
Evidence suggests that, at school, young women now fare better than young men and that the labour market chances of some young blacks relatively improved in the last part of the century. However, by an analysis of econometric studies, case study work and official statistics, this paper debunks the i…
