It was also great to hear the promise of a more coherent approach to advice services and financial support to improve the awareness of and access to higher level vocational training.
It could provide the learning environment and high-level vocational training that businesses need, plus skills for the self-employed.
Analyses were conducted on the overall data, and with stratification by gender and by three educational levels (low level classified as none and primary school; middle level as secondary school; and high level as vocational school or university/college).
The authors contend that this milieu, and other factors, create high levels of vocational stress and may generate high levels of burnout.
* Educational level is defined as: low: primary school, lower general secondary school, lower vocational school, or less; intermediate: high school or medium level vocational school; high: college or university degree.
Parental educational level was scored on a 4-point scale: 0 = elementary school or uncompleted elementary school, 1 = lower level of secondary or vocational education, 2 = medium level of secondary or vocational education and 3 = higher level of vocational education or university.
** Low = less than 16 years at school (i.e. no high level technical or vocational training for 16+ years).
Level of education was divided in three categories: lower education (primary school, lower general secondary school, lower vocational school, or less), intermediate level education (high school or medium level vocational school), or higher education (university or college degree).
Twenty-one percent had a low level of education (primary school, lower general secondary education or lower vocational education), 42% an intermediate level (higher general secondary education or intermediate vocational education), and 36% a high level of education (higher vocational education or university).
Marylebone's Sylvia Young Theatre School - which bills itself as "offering a high level of academic and vocational studies" and counts Rita Ora and the late Amy Winehouse among its alumni - was also revealed to have received the Government's notice.
