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Most male students experience the apprenticeship system as a valuable alternative to general education, but social and institutional processes of differentiation in the vocational schools places a significant group of students in a position where they have little chance of completing the program.
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Even though more girls than boys complete tertiary education and more boys than girl complete a upper secondary VET program, this does not mean that boys in general have problems in education. Men who complete a vocational program are often better off in the labour market than women who complete a Bachelor program in terms of income and career prospects. There are no general ‘boy problems', but shortage of apprenticeships and social selection in the dual system of VET in Denmark.
Professor Christian Helms Jørgensen
Roskilde Universitet
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This page is a summary of: Some boys’ problems in education – what is the role of VET?, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, January 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13636820.2014.917694.
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