How do you get more young people to choose vocational education?
Published: 10 October 2024
That’s the question researchers will be asking, as a new project which aims to gather data from 7,500 young people across five countries gets underway following EU Horizon Grant
Researchers from the University of Glasgow's School of Education will join colleagues from partners across Europe to undertake a major new project aimed at understanding how and why people choose vocational education.
The project will get underway in January 2025, after being awarded an EU Horizon Grant of £2.4million to ask 7,500 young Europeans about their educational choices and follow their journeys through vocational education.
In the UK, fewer young people are taking vocational education programmes. But why is the sector in decline here while the number of young Spaniards and Estonians who are turning to vocational programmes is increasing? And how did Croatia manage to get 70 per cent of its young people to choose a vocational education?
These are just some of the questions the new project will look to answer.
Researchers from Glasgow will take part in the project alongside colleagues from the University of Southen Denmark, Universitat De Valencia (Spain), Institute for Social Research in Zagreb (Croatia), Tallinn University (Estonia), and Linq Consulting and Management (UK).
In a joint effort, the European universities will survey 7,500 young people across five European countries to find out why they choose or opt out of vocational education and what factors contribute to or prevent young people in vocational education actively participating in their education and completing it.
The project will last for 3 years. The first data collection among thousands of young Europeans will take place in April/May 2025.
First published: 10 October 2024
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