The skills generated by
vocational education appear to facilitate the transition into the labor market but later on become obsolete at a faster rate.
Not exact matches
Two damning reports
appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management
education as little more than
vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.
Under modern conditions, with changes occurring so rapidly that most specific occupational preparation becomes quickly out of date, it even
appears that a fundamental liberal
education is the best
vocational education, for it develops the powers of imagination needed to meet new situations and the understanding of interrelationships required by life in an increasingly interdependent civilization.
Anything that
appears to be focused on training is perceived to increase the risk of a school of
education being seen as a
vocational entity.
Vocational education has been promoted largely as a way of improving the transition from schooling to work, but it also
appears to reduce the adaptability of workers to technological and structural change in the economy.
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