Vocational Education
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- Created on: 10-03-21 15:09
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- Vocational Education
- Relates to career or specific work roles
- Students are prepared for a particular form of skilled employment that requires strong practical skills and training (e.g. mechanic, electrician, plumber)
- Sociological Perspectives
- Functionalists
- Schultz says human capital (investment in skills of humans) meets the needs of the economy.
- Positive
- New Right
- Boosts the economy
- Positive
- Marxists
- Gives the working class a second class education which forces them into working class jobs
- Prevents social mobility
- Negative
- Gives the working class a second class education which forces them into working class jobs
- Functionalists
- Main focus of vocational education in contemporary Britain has been on:
- Improving the quality of the basic skills of the workforce, particularly those of 14-18 year olds
- This has become more important in recent years because of high levels of unemployment among young people with around 16% of 16-24 year olds unemployed in 2014
- Ending the status division between academic and vocational qualifications so that practical, technical and vocational education is integrated with academic learning (such as in AS and A levels and uni degrees) so they all have more value in the market
- Improving the quality of the basic skills of the workforce, particularly those of 14-18 year olds
- Measures to achieve the main focuses:
- Work experience programmes to ease the transition from school to work and help them to get jobs successfully and carry them out well, with a better understanding of work and the economy
- Expansion of post 16 education and training, more government training schemes closely related to world of work and concerned with learning work related skills, e.g NVQs, BTECs, apprenticeships
- GCSEs and A levels made more demanding so students were better qualified
- Stronger emphasis on key skills in use and application of number, and in communication, IT and problem solving as well as basic literacy and numeracy skills in the national curriculum
- These are skills that most employers found school leavers lack as well as appropriate attitudes to and an awareness of working life (CBI/Pearson's Gateway to growth education and skills survey of business leaders 2014)
- Relates to career or specific work roles
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