Equity and access to high skills through higher vocational education

• Other Authors: Knight, Elizabeth (Researcher on higher education) (Editor), Bathmaker, Ann-Marie (Editor), Moodie, Gavin (Editor), Orr, Kevin (Professor of work and learning) (Editor), Webb, Sue (Professor of education) (Editor), Wheelahan, Leesa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
• Series: Palgrave studies in adult education and lifelong learning.
• Subjects: Vocational education > Cross-cultural studies.; Education, Higher > Cross-cultural studies.; Higher education and state > Cross-cultural studies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783030845025; 9783030845018
• ISSN: 2524-6321
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (xvi, 321 stran) : ilustrace
• Access: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. Examining a range of geographic contexts, the editors and contributors aim to address these contexts and highlight various similarities and differences in developments. They locate their analyses within the various political and socio-economic contexts, which can make particular reforms possible and achievable in one context and almost unthinkable in another. Ultimately, the book promotes a critical understanding of evolving provisions of higher vocational education, refusing assumptions that policy borrowing from apparently successful countries offers a straightforward model for others to adopt.