Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2025)
This study develops and empirically tests a dual-path mediation model within Pakistan's Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) context, drawing on Human Capital Theory and the Capability Approach to examine how Training Quality (TQ) and Institutional Policies (PIP) shape outcomes. Using …
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2025)
This paper analyzes the labor market effects of a Dual-VET Apprenticeship pilot in Nepal. The formal upper secondary education program usually lasts for two years. The program started in the end of 2019. It ended in spring 2022 after being heavily affected by COVID-19. We analyze labor market outcom…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2025)
This paper examines whether pursuing Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Bangladesh leads to improved labour market outcomes compared to general education. Drawing on nationally representative data from the 2016 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), it employs logit m…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2024)
This research studies the relations and articulations between two schools from the Antofagasta Region, located in the mining north of Chile, and three of mining companies in the country, which have part of their main operations in the surrounding territories of these schools. This study interrogates…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2024)
We document the dynamics of the school-to-work transition of former madrasa students in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh – the host community of the Rohingya refugees. We conduct a phone survey using a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) technique to understand the labour market opportunities and aspirations of…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2023)
The shift from manpower-planning to labour market analysis and skills anticipation has been analyzed since the 80 s in this journal and elsewhere, with the aim of improving.insights into how education can contribute to economic growth and development. This paper considers recent trends in policies f…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2023)
In 2012, IJED published a special issue on vocational education and training and development that reflected the sense of being at a potential turning point for policy, practice and research in this area as UNESCO convened the Third International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and T…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2023)
There are growing claims that skills mismatch is increasing in Vietnam. Previous studies recommend employer training initiatives to reduce it. However, research has found that firms are allocating more training resources for professional workers. In particular, they tend to provide more training on …
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2023)
Using cross-sectional data on the varieties of skills and employers’ demands for them, this paper examines determinants of wages in the garment sector in Ghana and Ethiopia. It found that the effects of cognitive and technical skills are consistent, while those of noncognitive and behavioral skills …
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2022)
This systematic review explores what has been studied about graduates with disabilities and their academic university and work experience. In the study, 18 articles were analysed and the voices of a total of 664 graduates with disabilities from different international contexts were considered. The r…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2021)
The current dominant discourse in the research literature postulates that informal payments in public education will be negatively associated with satisfaction with public education. In contrast, we theorize that informal payments can be classified into three different groups based on the motivation…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2019)
Vocational education and training has played a central role in promoting the school-to-work transition of young people. Despite this role, the return to Vocational Education and Training (VET) has been neglected in previous studies. This paper aims to examine individual returns to VET over a lifespa…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2018)
This article reports a mixed-method study that explored higher education stakeholders’ perceptions of the causes of Vietnamese graduates’ skills gap. Email interviews with 38 stakeholders and a survey with the participation of 475 final-year students, graduates, academics, and employers revealed 27 …
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2015)
This study assesses the impact of training sheet metal workers in Kenya on their uptake of learned skills and their income. Fifty-eight artisans trained in the construction of metal silos for hermetic grain storage were compared to a random sample of 123 untrained artisans. Results show that two-thi…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2015)
Policymakers in many developing countries regard upper-secondary technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a key element in economic growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately, there is evidence that upper-secondary TVET programs in developing countries experience high rates of drop…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2014)
The need to develop key competencies to meet the changing demands of industry has made the introduction of competency-based training (CBT) reforms in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) system a priority in many countries. This article explores the views of polytechnic students in Ghana on t…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2012)
This paper examines experiences with 'skills development' in South Africa to contribute to broader debates about 'skills' and the relationships between vocational education and development. Numerous policy interventions and the creation of new institutions and systems for skills development in South…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2011)
This essay is concerned with organisational learning and, in particular, policy learning. Sometimes, organisations learn; sometimes they do not. Sometimes they use their acquired knowledge, but this is, not always the case. Inside organisations, particular values, rules and incentive systems are dev…
Published:International Journal of Educational Development
(2009)
Against a backdrop of some two decades of sustained economic growth in Ghana, this paper argues that there are a series of sustainability challenges related to technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) that need to be addressed. This paper analyses several sustainability dimensions of TVSD …
