Bachelor degree participation in vocational institutions: examining the determinants of participation

Koshy, Paul ORCID: 0000-0002-9621-223X (external link), Webb, Sue ORCID: 0000-0002-0833-959X (external link), Dockery, Alfred M ORCID: 0000-0002-4517-2442 (external link) and Knight, Elizabeth ORCID: 0000-0001-6596-6525 (external link) (2021) Bachelor degree participation in vocational institutions: examining the determinants of participation. International Journal of Training Research, 18 (2). pp. 106-120. ISSN 1448-0220

Abstract

Recent studies in Australia have found that bachelor's degree participation in vocational institutions in Australia tends to skew towards students from high and middle socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. This outcome runs counter to overall vocational participation which is dominated by students from low and middle SES backgrounds. This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to confirm findings from a mixed-methods study on bachelor courses in vocational institutions by school leaver-aged students. It characterises the student population in such courses and examines evidence on the influence of determinants of bachelor participation in vocational institutions, in relation to measures of family background, wealth and cultural status and school type. It is found that students entering bachelor programs in vocational education have higher household levels of cultural possession, are more likely to plan to enter university, and have higher self-assessments of academic ability than those undertaking traditional vocational qualification pathways, but lower than those who undertook bachelor qualifications at university.

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Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/44339
DOI 10.1080/14480220.2020.1830838 (external link)
Official URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14480... (external link)
Subjects Current > FOR (2020) Classification > 3902 Education policy, sociology and philosophy
Current > FOR (2020) Classification > 3903 Education systems
Current > Division/Research > Centre for International Research on Education Systems (CIRES)
Keywords higher education participation, vocational education, bachelor degree, vocational degrees
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