... to integrate AI-supported chatbots into vocational education. Institutional leaders should treat educators' digital literacy as a strategic priority, embedding cognitive, ethical and pedagogical dimensions of digital competence in faculty development and promotion. Policymakers can foster cross-institutional...

...Chanchai Yothasoot; Surapon Boonlue Purpose This study reframes career decision-making competency in vocational education as a system-embedded capability influenced by institutional supports, opportunity structures, and constraints. Using Thailand as an exemplar VET system, it develops...

... Vocational education Further education Teacher identity Dual professionalism This paper explores workforce development through dual professionalism in the UK further education (FE) sector, with an aim to reframe teacher identity in the sector by answering questions around how FE teachers...

... influential. However, sector-specific regulatory constraints, resource asymmetries and organisational capacity differences moderated the effectiveness and sustainability of partnerships. Originality/value This study contributes to vocational education research by moving beyond binary conceptualisations...

...Cailing Yan; Lan Wu; Chang Li Purpose This research aims to construct an evaluation scale of Online Learning Resource for Vocational Education (OLRVE) tailored to assess the vocational online learning resource from the perspectives of vocational students. Design/methodology/approach Grounded...

...Ranjini S. Nadig; Tanu Shukla; Virendra Singh Nirban Purpose This study investigates technology readiness and adoption among Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers in Rajasthan, India, by integrating the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM 4.0) and the Technology Readiness...

...Lei Jiao; Rui Wu; Jun Zhao Purpose This study aims to examine the impact of vocational education on economic development in China from the dual perspectives of structural alignment and educational quality. It seeks to determine whether and how vocational education contributes to regional economic...

...Agneta Knutas; Anna Cecilia Rapp Purpose The article focuses on the life space experiences of students in the Vocational education and training ( VET ) transition in Norway. We explore a conceptual framework that recognises how social structures affect students in VET and how overlapping fields...

... Bourdieu’s theory of capital, Fraser’s model of social justice, and Crenshaw’s intersectionality. It engages in critical policy analysis of the Skills for Jobs White Paper and wider vocational education reforms to interrogate how structural inequities, marketisation, and employer-led models shape...

...Saeed Mohamed Alhajri; Douglas Yourston; Osama Khassawneh; Tamara Mohammad; Tamer K. Darwish Purpose This study examines how a hybrid approach combining virtual reality (VR) and traditional welding training can be integrated into vocational education to enhance instructional outcomes, learner...

...Xinglin Jin; Na Zhou; Xin Zhang Purpose The vocational education-industry connection is crucial for students’ professional competence development and employability. In the past decade, the Chinese government has issued numerous policies in this regard. This study reviews these policies concerning...

...Cailing Yan; Chengyu Liu Purpose This research aims to gain insight into the stereotypes surrounding vocational education and its groups from the students’ perspective. Building upon this basis, it seeks to explore the content, characteristics and solution strategies for stereotypes associated...

...Peter Fieger; Annette Foley Purpose In the wake of a skills shortage in Australia and its impact on the economy, the need for students to complete their vocational education and training (VET) programmes and enter the workforce is critical. This study aims to identify to what degree student...

..., reassessing programs offered by the ANAPEC, and enhancing technical training to better align with the evolving demands of the labor market. © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Career downgrading Vocational education Education system Labor...

...Kara Chan; Jasmine Zhang Purpose Vocational education in Hong Kong suffers from an image problem. Stakeholders often perceive it as a second-best option for those who fail to advance in academic education. In 2016, to promote vocational education, the Hong Kong government launched a publicity...

...-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Vocational education Formative assessment Entrepreneurship competence Summative assessment Competence based...

... and shortcomings of liberal education differ from those of vocational education and to allow the differences highlighted to inform a resolution to each other's shortcomings. Findings There is nothing new in the findings that liberal education differs from vocational education and that both have shortcomings...

... perspective of situated learning is similar to that of vocational education. Situated learning theory advocates a curriculum formed as a situational context for learning, which appears like possible application situations, in order to ensure that learning activities in the classroom foster problem-solving...

... Insights are provided into how students saw themselves as changing from their involvement. Students described the challenges they faced, how they reacted to those challenges and their most important forms of learning. Internships Vocational education International students Presentations...

...Jason Skues; Sarah-Louise Alexander; Lisa Wise Purpose The purpose of this paper was to examine whether there is a relationship between goal attainment and overall training satisfaction among vocational education and training (VET) completers, and in turn whether this relationship varies across...