This book explains how education policies offering improved transitions to work and higher-
level study can widen the gaps between successful and disadvantaged groups of young …

Context: An enhanced role for work-based learning is advocated increasingly widely across
industrialised countries and by international Vocational Education and Training (VET) …

This chapter draws on project data to narrate the students' stories, using vignettes of
learners' progress over the term of the project in order to illustrate the benefits and impact of …

The place of subjects in curriculum is increasingly defined by their perceived contribution to
student employability and economic competitiveness, with arts education repositioned as …

This book reports on a project which emerged from shared concerns amongst the authors
around the (lack of) value of the low-level, broad vocational curriculum, and the poor …

VET policies that assign increasing importance to workplace learning, including as a route
into higher education, emphasise technological advances, such as international discourses …