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This article critically evaluates recent research from the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NC VER) on the occupational structure of apprentices and trainees. This study argues that the research is flawed by the NCVER's demand that traditional trade apprenticeships and traineeships…

This article investigates the views of the students of the University of Cyprus concerning the aims and character of the university, in general, and the Department of Education, in particular. Moreover, it examines the extent to which the students’ preparation for the labour market is considered sat…

Provides an overview on a German lighthouse research project called L3 ("Lifelong Learning - Learning as a utility") in the area of e-learning systems that supply e-learning services via a virtual private network. More specifically, this paper focuses on a new approach of meta-tagging learning eleme…

This article presents empirical evidence on labour market performance of graduates of curriculum options in a diversified upper secondary education scheme, with emphasis on the benefit of choosing the vocational intensity of instruction. Such evidence, which was generated for the Greek education sys…

There are relatively well-established traditions of research in both school effectiveness and school improvement. These traditions are quite mature in that they have distinct research methodologies, agreed terms of reference and discourse and, not infrequently, some consensus around advice offered t…

This article analyses the mechanisms of a state-organized educational system as it functions between households and the labour market, regulating the passage of age cohorts from the home via school to the labour market. One question is what outcomes the educational system actually produces and what …

This article is based on a survey of small automotive and electronics companies in Wales. Issues investigated included skills requirements and provision, recruitment, and training activities. The results of this survey are compared to a similar study carried out in 1996. In the intervening time, a n…

A number of recent inquiries into Australia's national training system have found it to be on the sick side. This article seeks the causes of this in the recent evolution of training policy, which commenced in the late 1980s. The article traces the demise of the first moderately interventionist Nati…

This article analyses the impact of e-learning on the higher education skills agenda. The main question addressed in the article is whether the e-learning environment meets the learning needs of the student to enable skill development to take place. Analysis is provided of face-toface versus on-line…

There is considerable pressure to expand the student take-up of university places in the United Kingdom. This has had implications for the nature of provision and pedagogy in higher education. In particular there is a tension between graduateness as a state after the completion of a course, and empl…