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Value Added in Further Education and Vocational Training in Northern Ireland

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Armstrong, D.
McVicar, D.

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At the age of 16, many young people in the UK decide to leave school and enter vocational education or training, either at a Further Education (FE) college, or on a Government training scheme. In spite of the size and importance of this group, the current debate about education and training standards has tended to focus more on how to improve schools, largely neglecting the potential contribution to be made by the FE and vocational training sectors. In this paper, we seek to begin to redress this imbalance by examining the extent to which those young people leaving school and entering vocational education or training at 16 obtained further qualifications up to the age of 18.

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Paper provided by Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland in its series Working Papers NIERC. with number 40.

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Keywords: EDUCATION ; YOUTH ; LABOUR MARKET ; TRAINING;

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I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General

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