EU Watch
By Andrew McCoshan (November 2008 Issue)
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The Higher Education Policy Institute recently shone attention on the fact that students who study vocational A levels seem less likely to go to leading universities and more likely to opt for an early exit. They are also less likely to get firsts or upper seconds.
Although such research inevitably raises some methodological questions, it nonetheless throws into sharp relief some of the issues around trying to put in place viable vocational routes into and through higher education, which are not just confined to the UK.
A lesson from some of my own recent research is that, across Europe, the issue is alive and kicking (European Commission (forthcoming)
Beyond the Maastricht Communiqué: developments in the opening up of VET pathways and the role of VET in labour market integration).
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