2018

Ursula Renold and a few members of the CEMETS team visited Serbia from October 17-19, 2018. During the visit, Dr. Renold attended a conference and the meeting of the Commission Article 40 for the implementation of Serbia's new dual education law, and the team worked on our ongoing research projects in Serbia with the Centre for Education Policy.

New article in The Atlantic on the CareerWise Colorado youth apprenticeship project. "A first-of-its-kind youth-apprenticeship program in Colorado aims to prepare students for the industries of the future by mirroring a successful model in Europe."  

A new summary brochure of our study on the social status of VET in Switzerland shows that there is overlap in the ability levels of young people in the VET and academic pathways. The study shows that VET is a high-status option and a case of school choice, not tracking.

At the beginning of this year, Chile published a new Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) strategy. CEMETS’ own Ursula Renold and Katherine Caves wrote the foreword to the strategy. This blog post is the English version of that foreword.

In the last entry we summarized a recent literature review on implementing VET, focusing on the key success factors and big question marks around specific reform features. In this entry, we’ll talk about the trends and interesting patterns in the literature. The literature is remarkably consistent over time, and doesn’t differ much between scholarly and non-scholarly sources (things like policy reports).