Read these instructions carefully, and then read the text “The
Highs and Lows of Vocational
Education” on the next page. Then write an essay of 350-400 words*
in response to this essay title:
You must support your ideas with:
- Evidence taken from the ‘The Highs and Lows of Vocational
Education” reading text (at
least one item, which must be referenced with an in-text
citation)
AND
- Other evidence regarding either Hong Kong OR China (which you may
have read and can
reference correctly, or which you have made up and should be
referenced with your family
name and the current year, e.g. (Fan, 2019). You are not required
to write a reference list.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of studying vocational education, in either Hong
Kong or China, and in another country.
The Highs and Lows of Vocational Education [adapted]
by Matt Barnum (2017)
What’s one education topic that right wing, left wing, and all
politicians support? It is vocational
training - something they’ve all said America needs in order to
create a balance of practical as well
as academic school leavers. While President Trump praised Germany’s
approach to vocational
education recently, he actually plans to reduce funding for it,
but, at least in theory, there’s wide
support for helping more students learn career-specific
skills.
Yet new international research points to a significant downside of
such programs: Students may
benefit early in their careers, but are harmed later in life as the
economy changes and they lack the
less specific skills necessary to adapt. The study raises concerns
about the positive and negative
effects of expanding vocational training in the United States.
“Individuals with general education
initially face worse employment outcomes, but with improved
experience as they become older,
they have increased employment opportunities, relative to
individuals with vocational education,”
write four researchers in the study.
Many European and developing countries provide extensive vocational
training, including
apprenticeships with involvement from industry, the authors note.
That stands in contrast with the
U.S., which has reduced or eliminated separate vocational tracks in
most high schools. Looking at
11 European countries, the researchers compared students within the
same country who went on the
vocational track to similar students who went through a
general-education program. The result is
that although vocational students make higher salaries and are more
likely to be employed as young
adults, this advantage fades over time; by their late forties,
those who went through a general
education program have higher employment rates. Those findings were
confirmed with more
detailed data from Germany. “The advantages of vocational training
in smoothing entry into the
labor market have to be set against disadvantages later in life,”
the study concludes.
At age 10, Germany requires students to choose a vocational high
school, academic high school, or
what one article described as “something in between.” Students have
frequent opportunities to move
between these choices as they progress with their studies. However,
in the U.S., vocation-focused
courses are often just a small part of a student’s course load. As
of 2009, the average American
student took 3.6 vocational classes in high school.
The authors of the latest research say the findings don’t imply
that vocational education is
necessarily a bad idea, just that it is important to understand the
advantages and disadvantages of
each choice. The results also suggest that policymakers looking
only at the short-term impacts of
such programs may not be getting an accurate understanding of their
effects. One recent study of
Arkansas’s high-school vocational program, which requires students
to take six career-focused
classes in high school in order to graduate and allows them to
concentrate in specific areas, found
that participants had higher earnings and employment rates as young
adults. Longer-run impacts
were not examined, however.
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