Table of Contents
Section 1 The changing context for colleges
1 New Frontiers for college education: the challenges.
Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve
2 Technical and professional education – a defining role
for further education colleges?
Martin Doel
3 Post Leaving Certificate Education in Ireland: Managing Different Goals
Emer Smyth,
4 New frontiers in college education
Paul Little
Section 2 Skills, colleges and vocational education and training
5 FE colleges in England and the skills policy agenda
Ewart Keep
6 SkillsFuture: Breaking New Ground, Creating New Pathways
Ng Cher Pong
7 The art of balance: how Chinese vocational education integrates with industry
Ni Tang and Dayong Yuan
Section 3 Colleges and vocational qualifications
8 Apprenticeships and social mobility: real choices for young people
Conor Ryan, (Director of Research and Communications Sutton Trust)
9 Is there a higher level skills gap that colleges can fill?
Fiona Reeve and Jim Gallacher
10 How are ‘applied degrees’ applied in Ontario colleges of applied arts and technology?
Gavin Moodie, Michael L Skolnik, Leesa Wheelahan, Qin Liu, Diane Simpson, and Edmund G. Adam
11 Problems and Challenges of Full-time and School-based VET in Germany
Thomas Deissinger
Section 4 Relationships between further and higher education
12 Seeking distinction and addressing inequalities: an analysis of new times for college-based higher education in England
Anne-marie Bathmaker
13 Social justice and widening access to higher education in Scotland: the role of Scottish colleges
Sheila Riddell and Lucy Hunter Blackburn
14 The American Community College: Complex Missions, Challenging Reforms
Kevin J. Dougherty, Hana Lahr and Vanessa S. Morest
Conclusions
15 Challenges for college education: reflections and some conclusions
Jim Gallacher and Fiona Reeve