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Kara Chan; Jasmine Zhang – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: Vocational education in Hong Kong suffers from an image problem. Stakeholders often perceive it as a second-best option for those who fail to advance in academic education. In 2016, to promote vocational education, the Hong Kong government launched a publicity campaign and rebranded vocational education and training (VET) as vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Discourse Analysis, Federal Government, Publicity
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Kim, Namhee; Park, Sunyoung – European Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe South Korea's unique fever for public service jobs (FPSJ) and to critique it from a National Human Resource Development (NHRD) management framework. Design/methodology/approach: This paper reviewed previous studies, news and technical reports related to FPSJ and NHRD to connect FPSJ and NHRD.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Service Occupations, Labor Force Development, Occupational Tests
Coco, Marlena; Minney, Dana – Online Submission, 2020
Comparisons between CTE and non-CTE instructors and between CTE endorsements were examined in the context of PPfT and CTE's overlapping goals of quality instruction and professional learning. CTE instructors had significantly higher summative scores than did non-CTE instructors. Almost twice as many CTE as non-CTE instructors earned a…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers, School Districts, Professionalism
Trache, Maria; Zhang, Yi – Texas Education Research Center, 2017
To support youths' early motivation for higher education and careers, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 5 in 2013 to adopt a new foundation high school program, which allows students to pursue endorsements as they begin 9th Grade. Endorsements prepare high-school students for specific STEM, business, public service, arts and humanities, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Readiness, State Legislation, Educational Legislation
Clayton, Berwyn; Fisher, Thea; Harris, Roger; Bateman, Andrea; Brown, Mike – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2008
The resource in this support document is a set of small case studies, offering insights into how a range of organisations have gone about adapting their organisational structure and/or culture to enhance their capability. Key elements of each case are presented with a particular emphasis on: (1) the principles that have underpinned each approach…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Public Service, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Coffield, Frank; Edward, Sheila; Finlay, Ian; Hodgson, Ann; Spours, Ken; Steer, Richard; Gregson, Maggie – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
The TLRP project reported on in this article attempts to understand how the Learning and Skills sector functions. It traces how education and training policy percolates down through many levels in the English system and how these levels interact, or fail to interact. The authors first focus upon how policy impacts upon the interests of three…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Public Service, Educational Practices, Educational Policy