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) …

More than half of the youth in upper-secondary education in Norway choose programmes in
vocational education and training. There is a larger risk of marginalisation in VET than in …

Where young people's upper-secondary education spans work and institutional domains,
questions arise about learning across both spheres and its guidance. Theoretical accounts …

Motivated students have been shown to persist longer in post-secondary education. As a
multidimensional psychological construct, motivation is shaped by within-and between …

Incidental learning is a type of informal learning occurring consciously with unintentional
acts. Within the scope of this study, informal learning on a digital learning platform was …

This book reports the outcomes of a research project which involved developing and
implementing a research-informed curriculum for low-attaining further education students …

Recent policies for English technical and vocational education and training (TVET), centred
on apprenticeship reforms and the Sainsbury Review, have prioritised employer-led …

This thesis responds to contemporary debates about early childhood education and the
gendered nature of the workforce, drawing on feminist theory, interpretive methodologies …

Political impetuses for raising the professional status of the careers sector in England have
spanned more than a decade, driving an assiduous pursuit for professionalisation linked to …