Dual sector education

Dual sector education is a system of tertiary education that includes substantial amounts of both vocational (skills-based) and higher (academic-based) education in the same institution. Dual sector education is offered by colleges and universities worldwide, most prominently in Australia,Austria, Germany,Ireland, New Zealand,Switzerland and the United Kingdom. It differs from, and/or can also encompass, the similarly termed dual education system - which combines both vocational education within a school and an apprenticeship within a workplace. Moodie distinguishes between single sector institutions which offer 97% of their teaching in one sector, mixed sector institutions which teach from 3% to 20% of their students in their smaller sector, and dual sector institutions which have substantial (> 20% of their load) in each of vocational and higher education.

Texts:

Wheelahan, Leesa (2000), Bridging the Divide: Developing the Institutional Structures That Most Effectively Deliver Cross-Sectoral Education and Training, Leabrook (Australia): National Centre for Vocational Education Research, ISBN  

Bathmaker, Ann-Marie; Brooks, Greg; Parry, Gareth; Smith, David (2008), "Dual-sector further and higher education: policies, organisations and students in transition"; Research Papers in Education, Volume 23; Issue 2, London (UK): Routledge, ISSN 1470-1146 

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