While 11% of 16-19-year-olds are not in employment, education or training, just 6% participate in workplace-based learning. Meanwhile, Germany has half of all school leavers entering their highly regarded ‘dual training’ apprenticeship system.
"Schools are primarily geared toward university-track education, even though only about one-third of school leavers enrol in degree programmes," said report author Michael Johnston.
This report highlights how Trades Academies, Gateway programmes and other vocational education initiatives operate as fragmented "add-ons" rather than forming a coherent pathway equivalent to trades and industry training.
Key recommendations:
This report highlights how Trades Academies, Gateway programmes and other vocational education initiatives operate as fragmented "add-ons" rather than forming a coherent pathway equivalent to trades and industry training.
Key recommendations:
- Unify existing vocational programmes into a clear alternative pathway to university.
- Workforce Development Councils to be elected by industry bodies rather than appointed by ministers
- Expand the role of Workforce Development Councils to include advising on curriculum development for schools offering industry training pathways.
Dr Michael Johnston discusses his report with our Executive Director Dr Oliver Hartwich on our latest podcast episode. Listen below.
Dr Michael Johnston is a Senior Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. This article was first published HERE
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>"Schools are primarily geared toward university-track education, even though only about one-third of school leavers enrol in degree programmes," said report author Michael Johnston.
Fortunately it is not always so. Some schools exploit the flexibility of the NCEA and NQF and offer viable technical and vocational pathways. When I looked into this, I even found one school registered as both a school and an industrial training provider. This paper is a bit old but it would appear that it remains topical:
Vlaardingerbroek, B. (2005). "Smoothing the secondary-tertiary education interface: Developments in New Zealand following the National Qualifications Framework reforms". Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 57: 411-418.
The three goals Linda McMahon as Trump''s Education Secretary is -to ensure parents are the primary decision makers in their kids' education , focus education on math, reading , science and history and not divisive DEI programs and gender ideology and establish post secondary education as a pathway to well paying careers that meets the demands of the workforce.
Surely these are common sense agendas any normal person would arrive at. How have we in the West been so led astray by ideology as to have schooling that was so distant from practical applications in the real world ?
My grandfather , as the principal of a secondary school back in the 1930s -1940s was a pioneer in having secondary students, who were not academically inclined be able to choose vocational subjects like horticulture and farming since it was a rural area. This was after the cancelling of the standard 6 proficiency exam which had restricted entry to secondary school to those who passed this exam.
Then there were the Technical Colleges. Why were they closed down?
There was much in our education system that was good and practical until academia started dictating crazy ideology and everything has gone downhill since then.
From my experience many children who have failed to be taught in the basics have little choice but being baristas or waitresses.
Equality and equity is not having everyone attempting to to be a University graduate . This is insanity but then so is not concentrating on teaching the basics effectively which we have endured now for at least four decades.
Get education out of the clutches of academia as it used to be before regressive Progressive Education invaded our fair land , no thanks to C. Beeby and P. Fraser.
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