Vocational educational training
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- Created on: 29-04-14 21:19
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- VET (vocational educational training)
- New Vocationalism- education's main function is to provide the economy with a skilled workforce taught the specialist skills needed.
- YTS, apprenticeships, (G)NVQs, vocational A levels, etc.
- Transmits the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for certain careers
- Rob Strathdee- New Labour's VET policy reproduces inequality through forcing working-class or ethnic minority students onto courses leading to low pay/status jobs
- Carol Buswell- YTS channels girls into traditional low-paid jobs, e.g. retail work
- Dan Finn- YTS provides cheap labour for employers, undermines trade union power, keeps unemployment statistics down, and keeps youths off the streets
- Marxists- true function is serving capitalism and reproducing inequalities
- Phil Cohen- YTS teaches young workers the attitudes and values a subordinate labour force holds
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