The Shifting Relationship between Vocational and Higher Education in France and Germany: towards convergence?

  • In Europe, the Bologna and Copenhagen Processes in higher education (HE) and vocational education and training (VET) are on the agenda, aiming to create a European educational area. Acknowledging important differences between countries, we compare the evolving relationship between HE and VET. We ask whether and how these two distinct organisational fields in France and Germany have changed in recent decades. Comparing institutional shifts, the article analyses whether long-standing differences in postsecondary education and training systems and the education/economy nexus in these two countries have remained stable. We argue that these countries’ skill formation systems have begun to converge, departing from their original institutionalisation paths. Thus, while the traditional typologies that contrast France and Germany have served as useful heuristic devices, they require revision to adequately represent incremental institutional change in these skill formation systems resulting from endogenous reforms and exogenous pressures due to Europeanisation.
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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Justin J.W. Powell, Lukas GrafORCiD, Nadine Bernhard, Laurence Coutrot, Annick Kieffer
Parent Title (English):European Journal of Education
ISSN:0141-8211
Publication year:2012
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:405
Last Page:423
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-3435.2012.01534.x
Release Date:2018/02/19
Volume:47
Issue:3
Licence of document (German):CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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