Pathways and participation in vocational and technical education and training

The OECD countries have widely differing traditions regarding basic vocational training. This publication, prepared as part of the VOTEC project on The Changing Role of Vocational and Technical Education and Training, is designed to help towards a better understanding of the internal logic and workings of these different systems. Education and training systems propose differentiated and interconnected pathways, each of which can be broken down into a series of programmes. But what are the factors that explain participation of young people in VOTEC and the way it has developed over time? A number of answers have been formulated and are examined here in the light of ten national reports.

Abstract from publisher's website.

The contents are as follows: Synthesis of country reports / Claude Pair; Australia / Department of Employment, Education and Training; Austria / Lorenz Lassnig; Denmark / Roland Osterlund; England, Wales, and Northern Ireland / David Short; France / Claude Pair and Sylvie Lemaire; Germany / Gernot Weisshuhn and Felix Buchel; Italy / Marinella Giovine; The Netherlands / Elly de Bruijn and Eva Voncken; Quebec / Lili Paille; Switzerland / Anna Borkowsky and Philipp Gonon; Conclusion: where are pathways going?: conceptual and methodological lessons from the pathways study / David Raffe. Show less