
The Future Potential of Vocational Education and Training: Strengthening VET for the next generation
7th International VET Congress
2-4 February 2022 - Bern/Zollikofen, Switzerland
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
Location: Room 1 |
Date: Wednesday, 02/Feb/2022 | |
1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Paper Session 1A: Educational and occupational choice Location: Room 1 Chair: Juerg SCHWERI Student engagement in relation to educational choice at upper secondary school: Longitudinal approach Too young to choose – does pupils' age shape their track choice after compulsory schooling? Does School Ethnic Diversity affect Occupational Choices? New information, new interests? The effect of an occupation finder for dual vocational education and training on students' occupational choice |
3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Paper Session 2A: Higher vocational education Location: Room 1 Chair: Carmen BAUMELER Higher Vocational Education in Germany and Canada – a comparison of Hybrid Qualifications Colleges of Higher Education in Transition. Perceptions of and Reactions to Changes in the Swiss Education System and the Trends towards Tertiarisation, Internationalisation and Academisation Motives for or against the implementation of the recognition of prior learning from a professional education institution’s perspective |
Date: Thursday, 03/Feb/2022 | |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
Paper Session 3A: Training conditions and learning processes Location: Room 1 Chair: Filippo PUSTERLA A Latent Transition Analysis Investigating the Stability, Predictors, and Outcomes of Resource Profiles during Apprenticeships How does COVID-19 affects learning of apprentices in the workplace training and classroom education? Current working and production conditions in the Swiss bricklaying trade and their influence on in-company training conditions from the perspective of apprentices Innovation in the School System |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
Paper Session 4A: Demand for education and skills Location: Room 1 Chair: Juerg SCHWERI VET makes the difference: job polarization in the US and Germany Does ICT Affect the Demand for Vocationally Educated Workers? Updated education curricula and accelerated technology diffusion in the workplace: Micro-evidence on the race between education and technology On the extent of applicant discouragement after apprenticeship contract cancellations during the Covid-19 pandemic |
4:15pm - 5:45pm |
Paper Session 5A: The role of different types of skills in the recruitment process Location: Room 1 Chair: Miriam GRØNNING Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment How Do Employers Value Non-Formal University Credentials in Recruitment Processes? Education Preferences in Recruitment: What Affects Employers’ Preferences for Vocational versus General Education? Income risks of vocational and academic tertiary education - More money, higher risks? |
Date: Friday, 04/Feb/2022 | |
10:30am - 12:00pm |
Paper Session 6A: Mobility and school-to-work transitions Location: Room 1 Chair: Daniela ROHRBACH-SCHMIDT Changes in the Returns to Education at Entry into the Labour Market in West Germany Improved Prospects for a Smooth School-to-Work Transition? Transition Patterns and Turbulence of Disadvantaged School Leavers in Germany in Times of Increasing Demand for Trainees The effect of training firm conditions on educational success Educational homogamy as a socio-institutional influencing factor of VET in the pandemic and post-pandemic time (based on results of international comparative analysis) |
1:45pm - 3:15pm |
Paper Session 7A: Returns to education Location: Room 1 Chair: Filippo PUSTERLA IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations Do wage scarring effects depend on the type of workers’ skills? How IT progress affects specialization and social skills in the labor market The impact of a missing school graduation cohort on hiring trainees and training wages |
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