Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2026)
Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) encompasses a variety of educational experiences that seek to bridge the gap between academic study and the world of work. However, Design Thinking although widely applied as a pedagogical framework for structuring student multidisciplinary, problem-based learning proj…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Although international organisations (IOs) are recognised as important actors in education, their involvement in vocational education and training (VET) remains underexamined. This article reviews the current state of research on IOs in VET, focusing on the ILO, OECD, UNESCO, and the World Bank, thr…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Approximately 25% of vocational education and training (VET) applicants in Germany hold a university entrance diploma (Abitur). These students enter VET even though they could enter higher education (HE); the latter typically yields higher incomes and better career prospects. We extend research on t…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In this paper, we investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on vocational education and training in Germany. We exploit rich establishment-level survey data to estimate the causal effects of the pandemic by applying difference-in-differences estimation, contrasting trends in outcomes between …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This paper reflects on a large multisite funded VET research project conducted by a large and diverse research team. Reflecting on two of our case studies, from Uganda and South Africa, we consider both the need for broadening the VET research agenda to incorporate more research on non-formal sites …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In comparative VET research, a model developed from the perspective of comparative politics, the so-called ‘skill formation systems typology’ developed by Busemeyer and Trampusch, dominates the discourse. However, models to compare VET systems often rely on a narrow set of assumptions and fail to ac…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Vocational education and training (VET) institutions are tightly embedded into countries’ political economies and sociocultural context. The theoretical focus on influential factors excludes crucial aspects of the multilayered institution, while historical, sociological, and youth transition literat…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
To meet society’s changing demands, the responsive development of curricula is vital, and curriculum developers need to increasingly foresee and incorporate changes into their curricula in a timely manner. However, responsive curriculum development is a complex problem for curriculum developers in v…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The article addresses school-to-work transitions among young women in a strongly male dominated professional sphere–the transport industry. Drawing on interviews with two girls over the time span 2015–2022 and visits to their upper secondary school 2016–2019, the study focuses on how power structure…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This article examines how discourses on migrants, language skills, and the suitability of educational and vocational paths can racialise the students perceived as migrants in Finnish vocational education and training (VET). The study draws on observations and interviews with students and teachers on…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The Learning Outcomes revolution has swept the globe. Heralded as the means to raise vocational education and training standards, and establish equivalence with academic qualifications, the outcomes assessment model has been at the vanguard of VET reform. These bold claims derive from the particular…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The paper adds to the literature on vocational education and training by developing an account of the role played by technicians, and vocational education and training, in innovation. It also fills a gap in the innovation systems literature by analysing the neglected role of technicians and provider…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
While an increasing number of studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on the innovative capacity of training companies, empirical evidence on the topic remains contradictory. This study exploits establishment data from a representative survey …
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Germany’s VET system is highly gender-segregated and marked by high dropout rates. This article investigates the dropout behaviour of apprentices in gender-atypical training occupations. First, we investigate whether gender-atypical apprentices drop out at a higher rate than their majority peers. Se…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
In the UK context of an ageing population, degree apprenticeships represent a new opportunity to study for a degree while working. Apprentices are full-time employees granted time to study for a degree with a significant workplace learning component. The aim of this study was to focus on whether deg…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
There is considerable international interest in transitions from school to work. This article approaches the issue as part of the debate around ‘vocational maturity’ (Ausbildungsreife) in Germany and ‘employability’ in the United Kingdom. Vocational education and training systems in these two countr…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
The higher participation of England’s ethnic minority students on vocational courses at the age of 16 initiates them onto the ‘lower tier’ pathway in tertiary education. Lower tier implies participating in certain vocational courses and entering lower status universities. Consequently, ethnic minori…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
This article explores the influence of institutional landscapes on vocational education and training (VET) organisations, leveraging the insights provided by neo-institutional theory on the relationships between internal and external sources for legitimacy and adaptation. The article explains key th…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
More than half of the youth in upper-secondary education in Norway choose programmes in vocational education and training. There is a larger risk of marginalisation in VET than in other educational programmes. One challenge facing VET is the mismatch between students’ vocational education and the co…
Published:Journal of Vocational Education and Training
(2025)
Online instructional videos have been presented as an efficient instructional method in workplace learning and vocational education and training (VET). Increasingly, public video-sharing sites like YouTube are used by firms, educators and learners to teach and learn about work practices, new work ro…
