Vocational higher education: does it meet employers’ needs?

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Brenda Little with Helen Connor, Yann Lebeau, David Pierce, Elaine Sinclair, Liz Thomas and Karen Yarrow

A team led by Brenda Little at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information at the Open University (OU) conducted the research for this study.
This bulletin reports on a study of vocational higher education undertaken against a backdrop of government policies on education that seek to redress the balance between academic and vocational routes to high-level qualifications and an emerging skills strategy that aims to create a demand-led approach to skills training.
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The study, which was limited to England, aimed to collate employers’ views on the:
value of vocational higher education (HE)
relative merits of such provision in higher education institutions (HEIs)
and further education colleges (FECs).