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Direct linkSusan McGrath – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
England's mainstream upper secondary curriculum is driven by academic, exam-based GCSEs and A levels, with applied learning qualifications an alternative for 'less-academic' 16-18-year-olds. This paper elides two studies of the impact of the BTEC National Diploma on employment and career trajectories, one from the perspective of 16-22-year-olds,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nontraditional Education, Education Work Relationship, Secondary Education
Download full textNatCen Social Research; NFER – UK Department for Education, 2025
The 2023 Tech Ed Study aimed to continue evaluating the success of ongoing technical education reforms in England, which aim to deliver high-quality learning experiences and support progression into desirable outcomes. The 2023 Tech Ed Study followed up with the second cohort of T Level learners in a second wave of longitudinal data collection, to…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes
Sharon Gewirtz; Charlotte McPherson; Sait Bayrakdar; Meg Maguire; Alice Weavers; Chris Winch; Andrea Laczik; Olly Newton; Alison Wolf – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This article proposes and illustrates a framework for thinking about how the school-to-work transitions of young people not intending to go to university can be made more equitable. This framework seeks to enrich sociological readings of VET by building on the considerable strengths of existing research on ecologies of VET provision and the…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Career and Technical Education, Foreign Countries, Noncollege Bound Students
