Context: Aiming at gaining knowledge about students' thoughts and actions in deciding to stay in or drop out of an educational programme, an empirical study was conducted on dropout among 18-24-year-old students in VET and basic general adult learning. Approach: In order to pursue this aim, the...

Social competences are crucial parts of vocational education and training (VET) competences. As part of a development project preparing unskilled young people for VET, an action research project was conducted with the aim of developing a schema for assessing and grading social competences. The...

The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers’ methods for assessing the students’ prior learning...

The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers’ methods for assessing the students’ prior learning...

Social competences are crucial parts of vocational education and training (VET) competences. As part of a development project preparing unskilled young people for VET, an action research project was conducted with the aim of developing a schema for assessing and grading social competences. The...

This study seeks to shed light on perceptions of the role of mathematics in university economics programmes. Previous studies have clearly shown that mathematical knowledge is very important for students' success in economics programmes, but no coherent overview of qualitative reasons for...

In diesem Forschungsbericht geht es um die Frage der Lernortkooperation in der dänischen Berufsbildung. Es werden einige historische Bedingungen aufgewiesen, die auf den traditionell starken Einfluss lokaler Interessengruppen in der Beruflichen Bildung verweisen.(...)