Voluntary and Collective Employer Engagement and Agency around the High-Skill Supply-Demand Relationship of Education & Training and VET in England

Autor/in	Malik, Fatima
Titel	Voluntary and Collective Employer Engagement and Agency around the High-Skill Supply-Demand Relationship of Education & Training and VET in England
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 35 (2022) 4, S.390-404 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Malik, Fatima)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2022.2073341
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Foreign Countries; Skilled Occupations; Job Skills; School Business Relationship; Institutional Autonomy; Employer Attitudes; Labor Needs; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Ausland; Fachangestellter; Produktive Fertigkeit; Institutionelle Autonomie; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf
Abstract	This article explores the underexamined idea of employer engagement as the institutional agency around the supply-demand relationship surrounding education and training (E&T) and VET in England (2012), arguing why VET needs are still likely to be unmet. A single case-study methodology and forty convergent interviews with high-skill employers and policy stakeholders revealed three types of highly constrained employer agencies, in England's Northwest Bioregion, during a period when policy institutions faced restructuring and closure. The research is set against the backdrop of a previously failed and historically repeatedly revised VET institutional environment. In further addressing the lack of empirical evidence on the employer engagement problems faced by policy stakeholders during 2012, it reveals an individualised, voluntary, yet expected weak employer agency around supply-side initiatives. Also, a voluntary yet collective employer agency underpins the wider challenged efforts of policy stakeholders in engaging employers around E&T/VET, while also evident is a collective progressive employer agency around high-skill VET linked to R&D production. Discussions highlight the influence of supply-/demand-side constraints for current VET, questioning what has really changed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01