What is it about?
The article advances understanding of differences between Nordic countries and compares the developments and organisation of initial vocational education and training (IVET) in Finland and Sweden since the 1990s as examples of school-based models of IVET in statist regimes. The research questions explore how these two countries have institutionalised school-based IVET since the 1990s; the kinds of legislative reforms that have been decisive for the construction of school-based IVET; and how the models of school-based IVET in these two countries allow access to higher education and the world of work.
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Why is it important?
The analysis shows the heterogeneity of the statist model of school-based IVET systems in two Nordic countries and underlines differences with respect to school-to-work transitions between IVET and different labour market sectors.
Perspectives
The article helps to understand differences between the school-based models of VET in these Nordic countries.
Ms Maarit H Virolainen
University of Jyvaskyla
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This page is a summary of: Varieties of universalism: post-1990s developments in the initial school-based model of VET in Finland and Sweden and implications for transitions to the world of work and higher education, Journal of Vocational Education and Training, October 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13636820.2016.1238836.
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