If the regional opportunity structures offer a broader range of feasible educational alternatives in terms of both vocationally as well as academically oriented upper secondary tracks, and the total as well as the relative proportion of workplaces in the third sector are comparatively high, then the probability of pupils commencing VET decreases.
In schizophrenia, complete recovery implies the ability to function in the community, socially and vocationally, as well as being relatively free of disease-related symptomatology [ 1].
Yet protest groups have also emerged at vocationally oriented institutions like Leeds Metropolitan University, where students traditionally have had a hard-nosed attitude that education is a tool for career advancement.
Flourishing, as they explain, 'involves more than success in achieving projects; it extends to the kind of human being one is personally, vocationally, and communally, as well as the venues within which such human flourishing is facilitated and given form as practice' (Rabinow and Bennett, 2012, p. 9).
Mandelson's own degree, from Oxford, is in philosophy, politics and economics, a subject that evolved as a more vocationally useful alternative to classics for students keen to build a career in the civil service.
This is how Jesus invited Peter to join him vocationally as one of his Apostles, to be the beginning of the apostolic priesthood: "You are Peter," he would later say, "and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it".
Dr Anna Warrington, a prime mover behind the letter and a mass protest to be held in London next Saturday, said: "Doctors are personally invested in the NHS, as well as professionally: we are vocationally motivated, we have a true concern and empathy for our patients, and we regularly go above and beyond to ensure their care.
Griswold was an ardent believer in the liberal arts as opposed to a vocationally oriented curriculum.
"It is time to consider lengthening the statutory school day, which would allow for non-academic lessons such as sport, drama or vocationally related subjects, and has the potential to benefit, in particular, those from deprived backgrounds or at risk of delinquency".
