Interview with Prof. Wheelahan on TVET and Productive Capabilities

September 29, 2019   |   PEW Team Research

Professor Wheelahan was interviewed in the wake of the release of PEW’s latest report comparing the situation of TVET in several jurisdictions across the world and presenting a productive capabilities framework meant to support policy-makers and researchers. The interview is available through Stitcher.com.

Prof. Moodie on Productive Capabilities

July 24, 2019   |   PEW Team Research

PEW’s Professor Moodie has published a short piece in Worlds of Education where he explains the framework of productive capabilities and its use for TVET researchers and policy-makers. The piece can be found here.

International Comparative Study of TVET and Social Justice Published

July 7, 2019   |   PEW Team Research

Education International has released the final report on TVET and social justice prepared by Pathways to Education and Work’s Research Team. The report compares the situation across several jurisdictions and provides a productive capabilities framework to support future research and policy efforts. The report can be found here.

A Community College: Different Programs, Different Prospects

May 8, 2018   |   Ontario, PEW Team Research

By Laura Servage I completed my dissertation in partnership with an Alberta community college. Like most all community colleges, this institution was an important centre for credentialing in short courses and diplomas: the kinds of programs that could get people in to the workforce quickly, and match skills to high-needs occupational areas. The college relied…Read More

The Impact of College Baccalaureates on Access and Student Identity

June 22, 2017   |   Ontario, PEW Team Research

by Edmund Adam In 2000, the Postsecondary Education Choice and Excellence Act authorised Ontario’s colleges to award bachelor degrees. It marked a milestone in a journey that had begun a decade earlier with Charles Pascal’s (1990) Vision 2000, which recommended the creation of new degree-granting institutions. The government justified this reform on various grounds. A…Read More

Higher Education and “High Skills” Jobs

June 22, 2017   |   Canada

By Laura Servage As developed countries cross the threshold from massified to universal post-secondary education (Marginson, 2016; Trow, 2007), they are becoming more circumspect about the upper limits of benefits to be obtained, socially and individually, from such levels of participation.[1] It is no longer readily assumed that more education leads automatically to rewards in…Read More

The Impact of College Baccalaureates on Access and Student Identity

June 2, 2017   |   Uncategorised

by Edmund Adam In 2000, the Postsecondary Education Choice and Excellence Act authorised Ontario’s colleges to award bachelor degrees. It marked a milestone in a journey that had begun a decade earlier with Charles Pascal’s (1990) Vision 2000, which recommended the creation of new degree-granting institutions. The government justified this reform on various grounds. A…Read More

Apples to Apples? Ontario’s Differentiated Baccalaureates

April 26, 2017   |   Ontario, PEW Team Research

by Diane Simpson In 2002, legislation changed in Ontario allowing public colleges in the province to offer baccalaureate degrees for the first time (Clark, Moran, Skolnik & Trick, 2009). Presently (2017), almost 15,000 students are studying in over 100 college baccalaureate programs at 13 out of 24 public colleges in Ontario. The number of applications…Read More