The number of students enrolled in government-funded nationally recognised qualifications in Australia between January and September 2024 increased by 4.3% to 995,090 compared with the same period in 2023, representing a 13.4% rise from the same period in 2019. This publication includes data on students who undertook other forms of nationally…

The Virginia Department of Education allows for various paths to teacher licensure. Teachers may graduate from an approved teacher preparation program or obtain a teaching license through alternative pathways. This study identified the professional development needs of traditionally and alternatively certified career and technical education (CTE)…

Vocational colleges' social role has been under-developed because they have been marketised and privatised, and because the idea of the vocational college has not been advanced and institutionalised. The paper describes this for public vocational colleges in Australia, which are at the vanguard of competency-based education and in being…

The main objective of this study is to develop a training curriculum that integrates the basic components of digital literacy and the 70-20-10 learning model to enhance the digital literacy abilities of teachers at Nanchang Vocational University. The curriculum mainly includes the following two research questions: (1) What is the current status,…

This article summarizes the main results of a research on teachers working in secondary school VET in Chile by reviewing the principal features of teacher professional identity, including their beliefs and perceptions about teaching for job and their experiences in the context of the school settings in which they work. Empirical findings were…

Due to the rapid changes occurring in the social and ecological environment, students' sustainable consciousness has become an important issue. This study explored the impact of higher vocational college teachers' course management and students' metacognition on sustainable consciousness by taking higher vocational college students in Hainan,…

In order to find strategies for the sustainable development of industry-education integration in higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province, this paper takes 384 students and 361 teachers from 5 higher vocational colleges in Guangdong Province, seven senior education managers from 5 higher vocational colleges, and three senior business…

Context: As part of vocational education and training, learning factories are a new, hands-on learning setting in which students can create products with realistic digital manufacturing equipment while still in vocational school. Given their novelty, learning factories have not yet been studied with respect to whether special classroom management…

This study involves 1,654 in-service Swiss vocational teachers to investigate the actual use of 21 different educational technologies (USE) across four different teaching profiles and its interplay with teachers' perceived digital competence (PDC) and perceived usefulness (PU) of technology. The results indicated that the mean USE scores did not…

Aesthetic literacy has become a crucial aspect of education in China, particularly within the framework of national education reforms aimed at fostering cultural awareness and artistic appreciation. This study investigates the development of aesthetic literacy competencies among educators in China's higher vocational education system, focusing on…

This study aims to develop a curriculum to enhance the design thinking of art and design students in higher vocational education in Guangzhou, China, and assess the effectiveness of its implementation. Collected data using the Design Thinking Scale (DTLS). A total of 31 participants came from majoring in art and design at a higher vocational…

Nudging is a strategy from behavioural economics that subtly influences behaviour by changing the environment. Despite its recent introduction in education, no overview exists of what behavioural interventions are already practiced in education, and how these fit within nudging frameworks. In this qualitative study, we investigated what nudges are…

Purpose: The present study aimed to integrate artificial intelligence technology (ChatGPT) with an in-depth literature review to explore knowledge dimensions of professional teaching and information and communication technology (ICT) integration models in TVET, and utilize the Delphi technique and ChatGPT to examine, enhance, and validate a newly…

This study was conducted to explore the relationship between actors of education and employment systems in Nepali Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system. The study measured the engagement of actors from both systems in the curriculum process: design, application, and feedback phases. Further, it explained why the actors of…

In this paper I consider the social role vocational education can play in decentring settler-colonialism. Through focused programming located in community settings, these educational offerings provide opportunities for students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. Connecting capitalism's relationship to this school system, I contend that…