This article by the Council of Europe shows that report by the Committee on Upper Secondary Schools could cause a major restructuring of upper secondary education. The new role of the secondary school would be to give all pupils who have completed comprehensive school either vocational training or a basis for further studies at a higher education…

Relationships were studied between educational direction (academic or vocational) and three aspects of the sociopolitical ideology of 532 Swedish high school students. Vocational students were consistently more conservative than academic students on factors linked to social conservatism, whereas differences linked to political-economic…