At the European Vocational Skills Week 2020, taking place in November in Berlin, the European Commission will again award examples of excellence in research in vocational education and training (VET). The VET Research Award 2020 aims to reward VET researchers' outstanding contribution to innovative VET research in line with one of the European Commission's priorities …
Continue reading VET Research Award 2020: Call for proposals open until 12 June 2020
The significance of the title In contrast to general education, vocational education and training (VET) is characterised worldwide by a high degree of complexity. VET is multidimensional and, sometimes, has diffuse structures. VET is a descriptor which includes such as aspects as pre-vocational education, school-based VET, apprenticeship systems, technical education, higher VET, work-based learning, further education and lifelong learning. These …
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Today the International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) published a new issue with the following topics ...
The "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET)" was already mentioned on the original Beall´s List, a – now archived – list of potential predatory scholarly open-access publishers. WASET is also mentioned in the successor list Stop Predatory Journals, and WASET also organizes fake conferences. Several newspaper publishers – such as The New York Times ("One …
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The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the metadata of an article are becoming increasingly important for finding articles quickly, sustainably and accurately. So far we have used the service of DataCite in the "International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET)" for this purpose. We are now a member of Crossref, use this …
The Edge Foundation is planning to sponsor the participation of 3-4 emerging researchers from East Europe, who would participate at ECER with a research presentation and in a panel discussion. See below for outline of the panel session. If you know someone who may be interested in this, please ask them to send Andrea Laczik …
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At the beginning of the year we have – as in the past years – compiled all articles of the journal "International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET)" in one volume, the IJRVET Yearbook 2019. The book with all articles published in 2019 is now freely available for download here With kind …
The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) has published a new issue by now. The last regular issue of 2019 contains the following topics: Odd Bjørn Ure & Tom Skauge: Skills and employment under automation. Active adaptation at the local level Kathleen A. Park & Karen R. Johnson: Job satisfaction, work engagement, …
This Call for Papers is on teacher educators in the related further education (and skills) (FE) sector across the world. This call follows the Routledge publication of Professional Development of Teacher Educators in Further Education: Pathways, knowledge, identities and vocationalism (Loo, 2020 published in December 2019). Teacher educators are “those who are educating prospective teachers, …
On behalf of the European Commission, VETNET organised the nomination for the VET researcher award 2019. The final winner will be selected through a mix of votes from the jury and the general public. Have your say on who you think should win and choose your preferred candidate through on-line voting. Follow this link https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/VETExcellenceAwards2019 …
Continue reading VET Researcher Award 2019: Online voting is open until 15 October 2019
