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      Developing English VET through social partnership in further education

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          Recent debate has highlighted the Important significance of social partnership in further education for developing new approaches to English vocational education and training (VET). There is international evidence of the contribution that well-established social partnerships between employers, unions and government can make to deliver VET effectively. It is argued that in England VET can benefit from adopting and embedding social partnership models, especially ones in which further education (FE) colleges have a local and regional anchoring role. However, to date, England has persistently failed to implement any kind of significant social partnership for various reasons – a crucial one being government reliance on an employer-led approach to VET. A prerequisite for developing social partnership in further education is to identify and garner support for promising governance and cooperation structures. Such identification foregrounds a conception of a rich civil society and economy, with local and regional partnerships being essential enablers. An examination of FE colleges as part of a VET system reviews the benefits of establishing a coordinated skills system providing coherent local, regional and national pathways for vocational, technical and skilled work. Such a national VET system would integrate universities, employer training, the school curriculum and careers.

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                Journal
                LRE
                London Review of Education
                Lond. Rev. Educ.
                UCL Press
                1474-8479
                21 September 2022
                : 20
                : 1
                : 32
                Affiliations
                [1 ]National Official for Post 16 Education, National Education Union, London, UK
                [2 ]Associate Dean Knowledge Exchange, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies, The Open University, UK
                [3 ]Professor of Educational Philosophy and Policy, King’s College London, London, UK
                Author notes
                [* ]Correspondence: mark.addis@ 123456open.ac.uk
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-5431
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4021-6231
                https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0818-5102
                Article
                LRE-20-32
                10.14324/LRE.20.1.32
                48590374-4ed8-42ee-b582-d6130049a2a2
                2022, Norman Crowther, Mark Addis and Christopher Winch.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.32.

                History
                : 18 October 2021
                : 26 May 2022
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                Pages: 12
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                Crowther, N., Addis, M. and Winch, C. (2022) ‘Developing English VET through social partnership in further education’. London Review of Education, 20 (1), 32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/LRE.20.1.32.

                Education,Assessment, Evaluation & Research methods,Educational research & Statistics,General education
                further education,England,vocational education and training,civil society,local,social partnership

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