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Leemann, Regula Julia; Pfeifer Brändli, Andrea; Imdorf, Christian – Education Sciences, 2022
In Switzerland, baccalaureate school is still considered to be the royal road to a university education and the elite path for the social reproduction of the upper class. However, cantonal enrollment to baccalaureate school varies widely due to Swiss federalism. There is a recurring debate on whether access to baccalaureate school is fair and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Academic Education, College Preparation, Foreign Countries
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Burger, Kaspar – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Accumulating evidence indicates that students' sense of school belonging has a substantial positive effect on educational attainment. At the same time, life course and life span developmental theories suggest that the benefits of a sense of school belonging could be weakened by the channeling effects of education systems that assign students to…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Learning Trajectories, Prediction, Middle School Students
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Hafner, Sandra; Esposito, Raffaella Simona; Leemann, Regula Julia – Education Sciences, 2022
In Switzerland, the baccalaureate school is an important pathway to university education, and the aspirations of families and students to enter baccalaureate school have grown. However, vocational education and training (VET) remains the predominant educational pathway and has a strong lobby. We investigate how in this context, the transition from…
Descriptors: Governance, Vocational Education, College Preparation, Foreign Countries
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Jaik, Katharina – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020
Despite the ongoing debate about how much academic versus vocational upper-secondary education is favorable for a country and large differences across countries of those two types of education exist, the interplay of vocational and academic education on upper-secondary level and its consequences for the entire education system remain…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Vocational Education, Academic Education, Secondary Education
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
In a context of considerable interest in apprenticeship in recent years, Cedefop and the OECD decided to explore its future from the perspective of a number of megatrends, including sociodemographic changes, the accelerated adoption of emerging technologies and new forms of work organisation. They also considered how these trends have affected,…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Vocational Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Trends
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Schumann, Stephan; Juettler, Michael Christoph; Juettler, Andreas; Eberle, Franz – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (FVB) constitutes the major link between the academic and vocational track in Swiss educational system by combining a vocational apprenticeship with general education. Regarding the effects of economic competencies on these transitions, there is a substantial lack within the current state of research. The…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Track System (Education), Vocational Education, Apprenticeships