Education + Training: Volume 53 Issue 7

Socioeconomic status and the allocation of government resources in Australia: How well do geographic measures perform?

Patrick Lim, Sinan Gemici, John Rice, Tom Karmel

The aim of this paper is to compare the performance of area‐based vs individual‐level measures of socioeconomic status (SES).

Does the availability of vocational qualifications through work assist social inclusion?

Erica Smith, Andy Smith

The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether the availability of qualifications through work‐based traineeships in Australia assists social inclusion.

Exploring career success of late bloomers from the TVET background

Zoharah Omar, Steven Eric Krauss, Rahim M. Sail, Ismi Arif Ismail

The purpose of this paper is to explore objective and subjective career success and to identify factors contributing to career success among a sample of technical and vocational…

School‐to‐work transitional outcomes of a group of Italian school dropouts: Challenges for promoting social inclusion

Viviana Sappa, Laura Bonica

This study aims to deal with the role of vocational training in developing social inclusion by analyzing the school‐to‐work transitional outcomes of early school leavers whose…

The role of education, training and skills development in social inclusion: The University of the Heads of the Valley case study

Paul Jones, Christopher Miller, David Pickernell, Gary Packham

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to examine the initiation of the University of the Heads of the Valley Initiative (UHOVI) project and evaluate the development of its…

Guest editorial

Kathleen Collett, Kate Shoesmith