Gove's aides said the policy of "equivalence" introduced in 2004, under which vocational qualifications were given parity with academic exams when compiling league tables, had led to perverse incentives for schools to put children through easier courses.
"Dual education" Austria was one of the worst-performing countries in the 2009 Pisa tests while informal, inventive Alberta (in Canada and Finlandd, in which vocational and academic learning are mixed until later in adolescence, remain at the top.
If you create a system in which vocational training can't be funded, that is going to have a knock-on effect on which parts of the economy flourish and which don't".
Hartsuyker hinted the package could include curbs on the types of courses for which vocational education and training (VET) colleges can be funded under the loan scheme known as VET Fee-Help, shifting the emphasis towards the employment market skills needs.
Swedish vocational teachers normally spend most of their time teaching in schools, and the means through which vocational teachers meet the demands of contemporary vocational competence differ.
The empirical factor analysis of our survey instrument led to the theoretically assumed structure in which vocational identity, workplace identity, and workplace effort are empirically separate concepts.
