Meanwhile, their teacher, David Abreu, began to lecture them about what it's like out "in industry"—the vocational school term for the proverbial "real world".
Education was classified according to the length of study (primary school 9 12 years of education, vocational and short-term education 13 15 years, medium-term and long-term education more than 16 years and unknown).
Apart from this we do not find evidence for additional returns of vocational certificates in terms of occupational status.
However, this was not the case in the comparison with the volume of vocational education (in terms of teacher positions) in these areas.
Specifically, the research question is as follows: Are there differences between the group of teachers that cross the boundaries between the school community and the work-life community to participate in the CPD programme and the total population of vocational teachers in terms of age, vocational areas, and geographical location?
The findings on participation in the CPD initiative concern the distributions of participating vocational teachers in terms of sex, age (during the year of participation), upper secondary school vs. adult education, publicly vs. privately owned schools, type of municipality where the teaching institution is located, and vocational area.
Doctors, lawyers and scientists, understandably, do not have the option of short-term vocational training.
It is claimed that diploma development will be "employer-led", yet the white paper refuses to link the term "vocational" to the diplomas.
They would steer some students toward intensive, short-term vocational and career training, through expanded high school programs and corporate apprenticeships.
Previous programmes to demobilise troops following the civil war with Sudan – by offering short-term vocational training, for example – have proved largely ineffective, raising questions about how such programmes should be structured and, crucially, who would fund them.
