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

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...

Table of Contents:

• Framing equity and access to high skills. Introduction / Elizabeth Knight, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Gavin Moodie, Kevin Orr, Susan Webb, and Leesa Wheelahan
• Higher vocational education and the matter of equity / Susan Webb
• Higher vocational education : country and province perspectives. Of human capital and human rights : educational reform and institutional hierarchies in Chilean higher education / Cristian M. Lincovil Belmar
• Higher vocational education in England in the 2010s : positioning, purpose, and possibilities in a highly stratified, high participation system of higher education / Ann-Marie Bathmaker and Kevin Orr
• Higher level vocational education in South Africa : dilemmas of a differentiated system / Joy Papier and Seamus Needham
• Higher vocational education in Canada : the continuing predominance of two-year diploma programmes / Michael L. Skolnik
• The origins and contemporary development of work-based higher education in Germany : lessons for Anglophone countries? / Lukas Graf and Justin J.W. Powell
• Higher vocational qualifications : differing approaches within the United Kingdom to meeting skills needs for the twenty-first century / Fiona Reeve and Jim Gallacher
• Post-secondary higher education pathways to workforce credential attachment in the United States of America / Deborah L. Floyd, Angela Garcia Falconetti, and Lazaro Camacho Jr.
• Higher education in vocational institutions in Australia : what's going on? / Steven Hodge, Elizabeth Knight, Shaun Rawolle, and Susan Webb
• Quebec cégeps as models of social and curricular adaptation / Alexandre Beaupré-Lavallée and Olivier Bégin-Caouette
• Reflections on systems and higher vocational education. A typology of tertiary education systems / Gavin Moodie
• Why isn't there more higher education in colleges in liberal market countries? / Leesa Wheelahan
• Higher vocational education as a work of art / Trevor Gale.