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Title
Redefining VET in schools: advancing the middle class?
Author/Creator
Crump, S. J.
Description
This paper will report on a three year Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded project into vocational education and equity in senior secondary schooling in New South Wales, which was completed in 2003 (Crump & Connell, 2003). The research explored the relationship between VET and young people’s futures, by investigating the reforms to the NSW external Year 12 exam, (the Higher School Certificate [HSC] assessment process) in which VET courses gained a new and more challenging profile. The intent of the "Securing Their Future" reforms was to make secondary curriculum more socially inclusive and thus set up young people with broader options for lifelong learning and employment, also articulated in the NSW "Charter for Equity in Education and Training" NSW Department of Education and Training (1996). This was to be achieved by reducing distinctions between programs of study that tended to separate privileged students from others, mainly through matriculation status.
Relation
Lifelong Learning: Whose Responsibility and What is Your Contribution?. 3rd International Lifelong Learning Conference (Yeppoon, Qld 13-16 June, 2004)
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http://lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2004/papers.htm
Date
2004
Publisher
Central Queensland University Press
Keyword(s)
vocational education and training (VET);  Higher School Certificate (HSC);  Department of Education and Training;  New South Wales
Resource Type
conference paper
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/27588
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ISBN:187667475X
Language
eng
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