Review 2011

Vocational education and training in the spotlight: Back to the future for the UK's Coalition Government?

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Fullera, Alison
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Unwin, Lorna
London Review of Education
Journal · Vol. 9 · Issue 2 · pp. 191-204
Abstract

This paper examines the Coalition Government's plans for vocational education and training for 14- to 19-year-olds in England. It argues that new types of educational institutions will enable the emergence of new forms of segmentation in which the vocational track is likely to become split into 'technical education' and lower level 'practical learning'. Whilst the new government has increased funding for apprenticeship, it has so far failed to address the systemic problems which have kept this as a minority track for 16- to 18- year-olds. The paper argues that the government-commissioned Wolf Review of 14-19 Vocational Education in England provides support for segmentation. © 2011 Institute of Education, University of London.

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Apprenticeship vocational education and training Technical Education Segmentation Qualifications practical learning

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Author Affiliations
Institute of Education, UCL Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom
University of Southampton, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Funding & Acknowledgements
Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC
Grant: ES/F037104/1
Economic and Social Research Council, ESRC
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