Aims & Scope
IJRVOCAS covers all topics of VET-related research from pre-vocational education (PVE), initial vocational education and training (IVET) and career and technical education (CTE) to workforce education (WE), human resource development (HRD), professional education and training (PET) and continuing vocational education and training (CVET). Some themes within these areas are as follows:
- Comparison of VET cultures and governance of VET systems
- Qualifications frameworks, competency-based education and training, and competence assessment
- Work-based learning, skills matching, and apprenticeship
- Teachers' and trainers' professional development
- VET careers, school-to-work transitions, vocational guidance and counselling
- Green skills, green jobs, greening TVET, and sustainable development
- Social issues in VET and the social impact of VET
- Transversal skills and transferable skills
- Pedagogic support by digital media
- Digitalization of work and learning, industry 4.0, and industrial internet of things
- Permeability of the education system, hybrid qualifications & dual studies
- History of VET
