Book Launch: Equity and Access to High Skills

You are invited to the book launch for Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education - part of the series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning.

Please note: there are two book launch events timed to allow participation from authors, editors and attendees from across the world. Please select the one that is most convenient for you.

Editors

• Elizabeth Knight (Victoria University, Australia)
• Ann-Marie Bathmaker (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Gavin Moodie (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Kevin Orr (University of Huddersfield, UK)
• Susan Webb (Monash University, Australia)
• Leesa Wheelahan (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto)

This newly published book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how this sector is changing in response to the social and economic demands of the 21st century. In particular, the book examines how higher vocational education has developed in response to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education.

The writers of the fourteen chapters explore the concepts of equity and access in education and they examine a range of geographic contexts from the United States to South Africa and from Australia to Chile to highlight the similarities and differences in the development of this form of education. Ultimately, the book promotes a critical understanding of evolving provisions of higher vocational education, refusing assumptions that policy borrowing from apparently ‘successful’ countries offers a straightforward model for others to adopt.

At these book launches, editors and chapter authors will present their contribution to the book in a panel discuss what is shaping higher vocational education, internationally.

A HudCRES research event