Schooling in the Workplace
How Six of the World's Best Vocational Education Systems Prepare Young People for Jobs and Life
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
BBB Library: Education, Corporate Success
ISBN: 9781612501116
Editorial Review
Across the developed countries today, educators, policy makers, and economists recognize that the new “knowledge economy” demands new and higher levels of skills than the twentieth-century high school or upper secondary school provided. Young people with aspirations to white-collar, “middle-skill” jobs in high-growth areas such as health care, high tech, engineering, and finance, as well as those choosing the old trades, need more sophisticated skills and knowledge than ever before, ranging from the ability to problem solve in messy situations to statistics to technical reading and writing. Countries that are doing much better by their young people—supporting them to achieve academically at higher levels, keeping them in school, and, most importantly, structuring the transition from school to work so that almost everyone has training for an initial career and enters the workforce smoothly—share two characteristics: they see the younger generations as important to support, protect, and engage with as an investment in future prosperity. And, in partnership with employers and unions, they educate from 40% to 75% of their young people in a vocational education system that links education and labor market needs and includes substantial learning in the workplace.
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