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Bertrand, Marianne; Mogstad, Magne; Mountjoy, Jack – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students away from the educational and career flexibility afforded by general academic courses. We study the effects of a nationwide high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, High School Students, Job Skills
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Laiho, Anne – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2010
Nursing Science represents a new academic discipline in the Nordic Countries. The article focuses on the academisation of nursing education and the development of nursing to a specific discipline in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The education of nurses has developed within the national framework of each country, but not within a national…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Nurses, Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries