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Are graduates preferred to those completing initial vocational education and training? Case studies on company recruitment strategies in Germany, England and Switzerland
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Hippach-Schneider, Ute, Weigel, Tanja, Brown, Alan and Gonon, Philipp (2013) Are graduates preferred to those completing initial vocational education and training? Case studies on company recruitment strategies in Germany, England and Switzerland. Journal of Vocational Education & Training, Volume 65 (Number 1). pp. 1-17. doi:10.1080/13636820.2012.727856 ISSN 1363-6820.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2012.727856
Abstract
The German and Swiss economies value skilled work highly and initial vocational education and training (IVET) has been the predominant traditional pathway into such work. However, concerns about a more ‘knowledge-based society’ and the ‘academic shift in the labour market’ are starting to undermine the status associated with those who complete IVET pathways and these former trainees also face competition from graduates from the relatively new Bachelor programmes in Switzerland and Germany. An international project investigated whether these developments pose a threat to developed IVET systems and whether companies are changing their recruitment strategies and how they rate the status of IVET. The findings from Germany and Switzerland were compared with the situation in England, the home of two-phase HE structures along with a very different tradition of vocational training. The findings from individual case studies in England, Germany and Switzerland are presented here, with the focus on the expectations of companies towards applicants with experience of IVET or Bachelor’s degrees.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Vocational Education & Training | ||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||
| ISSN: | 1363-6820 | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | Volume 65 | ||||
| Number: | Number 1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-17 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13636820.2012.727856 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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