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Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany
VET (vocational education and training) is a highly complex, multidimensional worldwide phenomenon with diverse structures. Additionally, very different actors define the functions of a national (or even a regional) VET system. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the policy frameworks...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34956422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40461-021-00128-w |
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description | VET (vocational education and training) is a highly complex, multidimensional worldwide phenomenon with diverse structures. Additionally, very different actors define the functions of a national (or even a regional) VET system. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the policy frameworks and current states of such systems. Therefore, we focus on selected VET systems in order to understand their specifics and thus, their market conditions. A qualitative approach is used to answer the research question regarding which conditions create or support market-based opportunities for the provision of commercial vocational training services. We find that the liberalism and deregulation of the VET sectors, as well as the marketisation of VET practices, lead to incentives to internationalise VET offers. Thinking in terms of skills, the kind of education system does not play a role. This is the case in liberal market-driven VET approaches (here, the UK, the USA and Australia) and is mirrored in the micro-analysis categories of curricula, learning location, content, and learning process. |
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spelling | pubmed-86843402021-12-20 Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany Peters, Susanne Empir Res Vocat Educ Train Research VET (vocational education and training) is a highly complex, multidimensional worldwide phenomenon with diverse structures. Additionally, very different actors define the functions of a national (or even a regional) VET system. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the policy frameworks and current states of such systems. Therefore, we focus on selected VET systems in order to understand their specifics and thus, their market conditions. A qualitative approach is used to answer the research question regarding which conditions create or support market-based opportunities for the provision of commercial vocational training services. We find that the liberalism and deregulation of the VET sectors, as well as the marketisation of VET practices, lead to incentives to internationalise VET offers. Thinking in terms of skills, the kind of education system does not play a role. This is the case in liberal market-driven VET approaches (here, the UK, the USA and Australia) and is mirrored in the micro-analysis categories of curricula, learning location, content, and learning process. Springer International Publishing 2021-12-18 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8684340/ /pubmed/34956422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40461-021-00128-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Peters, Susanne Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title | Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title_full | Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title_fullStr | Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title_full_unstemmed | Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title_short | Market conditions of international VET providers: a comparative analysis of Australia, UK, USA, and Germany |
title_sort | market conditions of international vet providers: a comparative analysis of australia, uk, usa, and germany |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8684340/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34956422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40461-021-00128-w |
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