Contents of Past Journals

 See all Volumes of the International Journal of Training Research  on the Taylor & Francis Online site.

Volume 7 Number 1 – June 2009

ARTICLES	Thomas Deissinger	The European Qualifications Framework to the European Lifelong Learning Perspective: How European countries are preparing to cope with the new philosophy of VET
	John Cokley and W Rankin	Ethnic and Cultural Focus in Airport Driver Training
	Terri Seddon	The Productivity Challengein Australia: The case for professional renewal in VET teaching
	Brenda Pritchard and Damon Anderson	The Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning in TAFE: Challenges, issues and implications for teachers

 Volume 6 Number 2 – December 2008

ARTICLES	Waheed Asghar and Sulaman Hafeez Siddi	Apprenticeship training in Pakistan: A comparative study of apprenticeship practices in Punjab and european countries – PDF
	Hitendra Pillay, Kathy Kelly and Megan Tones	Exploring work and development options to reduce early labour force exit of mature aged Australians – PDF
	Louise Watson	Improving the experience of TAFE award-holders in higher education – PDF
	Chris Van Der Linde	TAFE Diploma Graduates: Personal capital investments and returns – PDF
	Ruth Wallace, Mark Manado, Cathy Curry and Richard Agar	Working from our strengths: Partnership in learning – PDF

Volume 6 Number 1 – June 2008

ARTICLES	Ian Robertson	VET teachers’ knowledge and expertise – PDF
	Michele Simons and Erica Smith	The understandings about learners and learning that are imparted in Certificate IV level courses for VET teachers and trainers – PDF
	Darryn Snell and Alison Hart	Reasons for non-completion and dissatisfaction among apprentices and trainees: a regional case study – PDF
	Nadezda Novakovic	Thinking on the edge: the influence of discussion and statistical data on awarders’ perceptions of borderline candidates in an Angoff awarding meeting – PDF

Vol 5 Number 2 – December 2007

ARTICLES	Robin J Ryan	Commonwealth power in respect of vocational education in Australia: some historical vignettes with future potential
	Joanne Pyke, Santina Bertone, Marty Grace and Robyn Broadbent.	Two birds with one social policy stone: youth employment and regional skills shortages in Australia.
	Sue O’Keefe, Lin Crase and Brian Dollery	Does the reality of workplace training match the theory? An analysis of public sector employees’ training decisions
	Paul Comyn	Industry links with vocational education and training in China.

Vol 5 Number 1 – April 2007

ARTICLES	Susanne Armstrong	Factors impacting upon the performance of Workplace Assessors: A case study
	Michelle Barker and Leigh Habermann	Global strategies for international education providers in Australia: A case study of Tropical North Queensland TAFE
	S. Choy and J. Woodlock	Implementing Indigenous Standpoint Theory: Challenges for a TAFE Trainer
	Stephen Darwin	The changing contexts of vocational education: Implications for institutional vocational learning

Vol 4 Number 2 – December 2006

ARTICLES	Sue Kilpatrick and Pat Millar	Extension and the VET Sector: Time for closer alignment?
	Nola Alloway, Leanne Dalley-Trim, Annette Patterson & Karen Walker	Trade Barriers: To Invest, or not to invest, In a Trade as a career
	Martin Johnson	A review of vocational research in the UK 2002-2006: Measurement and accessibility issues
	Mehmet Taspinar	Restructuring the Turkish Vocational Technical Secondary Education System towards EU membership

Vol 4 Number 1 – April 2006

ARTICLES	Silke Hellwig	The competency debate in German VET: an analysis of current reform approaches
	Chris Van Der Linde	A new paradigm for evaluating TAFE graduate outcomes
	Thomas Deissinger, Erica Smith and Richard Pickersgill	Models of full-time and part-time vocational training for school-leavers: A comparison between Germany and Australia
	Tony Brown	Education for organising in a hot climate: a manufacturing union experience

Vol 3 Number 2 – December 2005

ARTICLES	Chris Selby Smith and Fran Ferrier	Funding arrangements for VET students with a disability: more talk or actual improvement?
	Andy Smith and Sephen Billett	Myth and reality: Employer sponsored training in Australia
	Tom McDonald and Beverly Jackling	An analysis of the environment as a means of assessing training needs in the Insurance industry in Australia
	Jonathan Winterton	From bologna to Copenhagen: Progress towards a European credit transfer system for VET

Vol 3 Number 1 – April 2005

ARTICLES	Angela Hill and Sue Helme	VET in schools for indigenous students. ‘hands on’, default, or promising?
	Malcolm Abbott	Strategic directions in New Zealand’s tertiary education
	Clare McBeath	Vocational Centres in Fiji Schools: A needs analysis
	Shelley Gillis and Patrick Griffin	Principles underpinning graded assessment in VET: a critique of prevailing perceptions
	Penny Hoy-Mack	Workplace assessment in New Zealand: stated intentions and realisations

Vol 2 Number 2 – December 2004

ARTICLES	Damon Anderson	Adult learners and choice in further education and training markets: constructing the jigsaw puzzle
	Gavin Moodie	Reverse Transfer in Australia
	Geoffery A. Tickell and Kosmas X. Smyrnios	TAFE-to-university transition: the effectiveness of an accounting degree articulation program
	Stewart Hase and Helen Saenger	When quality counts: implementing competency assessment in the workplace
BOOK REVIEW	Gail E. FitzSimons, Faculty of Education, Monash University	Stevenson, John (ed.) 2003, Developing vocational expertise: Principles and issues in vocational education, Allen & Unwin Sydney

Vol 2 Number 1 – April 2004

ARTICLES	Malcolm Abbott and Hristos Doucouliagos	The cost efficiency of New Zealand’s polytechnics
	Simon Roodhouse	Employability and workforce development- a policy and practise dilemma for higher education
	Anne Graham, Renata Phelps, Berenice Kerr and Lee McMaster	Pushing the boundaries or overstepping the mark? Exploring the potential of university courses for final year high school students’ career pathways
	Susan Johns, Sue Kilpatrick and Barton Loechel	Pathways from rural schools: does school VET make a difference?
INVITED ARTICLE	Thomas Deissinger	Germanys system of vocational education and training challenges and modernisation issues
POLICY AND PRACTICE	Kate Fannon	‘Needle Stick’- a role-play simulation: transformative learning in complex dynamic social systems

 

Vol 1 Number 2 – December 2003

ARTICLES	Catherine M Down	The impact of training packages: what might we learn about substantial system-wide change processes?
	Kisilu Mashtakh Kitainge	Voices of the stakeholders: a case of power mechanics in Kenya
	Viveca Lindberg	Vocational knowing and the content in vocational education
	Robyn Smyth	Implementing VET in New South Wales government schools: investigating implementers’ expectations and perspectives
	Rebecca Soden and Bob Pithers	The realization of critical thinking aims in a degree program for vocational tutors
EDITORIAL	Andy Smith

Vol 1 Number 1 – April 2003

ARTICLES	Pauline James and Pam St Leger	Crossing school-community boundaries for vocational education: enabling learning for potential early school leavers PDF
	Sue Kilpatrick and John Guenther	Successful VET partnerships in Australia
	Gavin Moodie	The missing link in Australian tertiary education: short-cycle higher education
INVITED ARTICLE	Jittie Brandsma	Vocational education and training reform in the Netherlands: seven years experience
POLICY AND PRACTICE	Doug McCurry	Notions of generic and work-related skills: essential, core, necessary and key skills and competencies
	Hans-Guenter Wagner	The Sino-German experience – 20 years of cooperation in vocational education and training