Reconceptualising vocational education and training systems in broader policy domains: monitoring and evaluation
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Article Title | Reconceptualising vocational education and training systems in broader policy domains: monitoring and evaluation |
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Article Category | Article |
Authors | Eddington, Noela (Author) and Eddington, Ian (Author) |
Journal Title | Research in Comparative and International Education |
Journal Citation | 6 (3), pp. 255-272 |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Oxford, UK |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.2304/rcie.2011.6.3.255 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.wwwords.co.uk/rcie/content/pdfs/6/issue6_3.asp |
Abstract | We focus on how the present Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in Australia might be modified to better accommodate possible VET futures change. We begin with the premise that VET’s role is to contribute to skills acquisition through formal education and training. We propose a simple VET futures role and purpose statement and outline a possible futures public policy environment in which its actualisation might need to be achieved. We continue, first by developing a policy intervention framework and a monitoring and evaluation framework germane to that futures purpose and policy mix, and second, by employing those frameworks to explain how a futures VET system might function. We discuss the present VET system in the context of the constructed futures VET system and draw conclusions from comparisons made. We find (a) that skills policy should be redefined to accommodate broader economic and social policy contexts in general, and sustainable industry policy in particular, and (b) that a more sophisticated policy mix, consisting of unified and complementary supply-side and demand-side interventions, should replace the VET sector’s reliance on simplistic supply-side policy responses alone. We outline an incremental approach for transforming the present VET system into the envisioned futures VET system and check and balance our findings through international comparisons. |
Keywords | VET; skill use; policy integration; policy frameworks; monitoring and evaluation frameworks |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 380111. Labour economics |
390308. Technical, further and workplace education | |
440703. Economic development policy | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Department of Training and Industrial Relations, Queensland |
School of Accounting, Economics and Finance | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q125y/reconceptualising-vocational-education-and-training-systems-in-broader-policy-domains-monitoring-and-evaluation
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