In the wake of Brexit and the global pandemic, skills shortages across the UK economy risk hampering efforts to reverse a decade of languishing productivity and festering inequality. Reinvigorating the long-neglected British vocational (or technical) education system is often hailed as a solution to this problem.

In a recent study we contribute to this debate with new evidence about the payoffs to vocational education in England. A new empirical approach allows us to estimate these payoffs separately for two groups of students facing separate alternatives: (1) those who would otherwise enrol in an academic sixth form and (2) those who would otherwise take no post-16 courses.

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11 November 2022

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CVER Blog

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http://cver-blog.blogspot.com/2022/11/on-track-to-success-returns-to.html

This Blog is published under the centre's Education programme.

This publication comes under the following theme: Vocational education and training