'Bridging' the gap between VET and higher education: permeability or perpetuation?
Name:
Esmond_2019_‘Bridging’ the gap ...
Size:
293.6Kb
Format:
PDF
Description:
Open Access Article
Authors
Esmond, BillAffiliation
University of DerbyIssue Date
2019-09-22
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Demands for admission to higher education from vocational routes are widespread across Eu-rope but take different forms, depending on the recognition of tertiary VET or whether sharp-er distinctions between VET and higher education exist. In England, alongside policies pro-moting more employer-responsive tertiary provision, opportunities for ‘bridging’ from voca-tional routes to general university education, and vice versa, have been discussed. The study reported here examined four cases of existing provision supporting transitions into higher edu-cation, potential sites of practices supporting bridging across pathways. Each case provided valued support for progression to higher levels of study; yet these practices focused on exist-ing routes rather than transitions between more academic or vocationally-oriented sites. It is suggested, therefore, that the explicit denotation of separate tertiary provision may be more likely to constrain ‘bridging’ provision than for the latter to help students move beyond their existing route into substantially different forms of higher education.Citation
Esmond, B. (2019). ‘Bridging’ the gap between VET and higher education: permeability or perpetuation? Proceedings of the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vocational Education and Training Network (VETNET). University of Hamburg, Hamburg, September. Berlin: VETNET, pp. 454-460. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3457492.Publisher
VETNETDOI
10.5281/zenodo.3457492.Additional Links
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.345749https://zenodo.org/record/3457492#.XbHDDehKhhE
https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/
Type
Meetings and ProceedingsLanguage
enae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.5281/zenodo.3457492.
Scopus Count
Collections
The following license files are associated with this item:
- Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International