This report explores the fiscal aspects of vocational education reform in the context of secondary education as a whole and considers the implications of any changes in the VE system for post-secondary and other modes of skill development.
Vocational Education (VE) is often ignored during discussions of secondary education reform even though it accounts for between 25 percent and 79 percent of upper secondary enrollment in the former centrally planned countries of the EU (EU8). Based on information, data and feedback from most EU8 countries, the report develops a set of propositions about VE reform, not with a view to prescribing a detailed “one-size-fits-all” strategy but rather to deriving some principles that continued reform of VE could take into account, to the benefit of fiscal efficiency.
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