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    What kind of access does VET provide to higher education for low SES students?: not a lot
    Wheelahan, Leesa (National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, 2009)
    This paper addresses three questions: the first question explores the extent to which VET diplomas and advanced diplomas provide students with an educational ladder of opportunity. The second question explores the extent to which VET pathways provide students from low socio-economic backgrounds with access to higher education and thus provides a social ladder of opportunity. The third question explores the institutional destinations of VET students from low socio-economic backgrounds in higher education. The paper concludes by examining the implications for policy. Overall, the findings are that pathways from VET to higher education provide access to universities, but not to the elite universities. It also finds that VET pathways are not a mechanism for redressing socio-economic disadvantage in higher education more broadly, because the socio-economic profile of VET articulators is very similar to students already in higher education and within individual universities, with a few notable exceptions.
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    Betwixt and between: higher education teachers in TAFE
    Kelly, Ann ; Wheelahan, Leesa ; Billett, Stephen (Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Association (AVETRA), 2009)
    This paper reports on the views of 20 teachers who were involved in designing and delivering higher education programs in TAFE institutes.
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    Education, work and economic renewal: an issues paper prepared for the Australian Education Union
    Buchanan, John ; Yu, Serena ; MARGINSON, SIMON ; Wheelahan, Leesa (Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney, 2009)
    Although education and work arrangements did not cause the economic down turn we are currently experiencing, policy in these areas will be pivotal in the recovery plan. Initiatives directed at economic renewal can simultaneously address deep seated education and labour problems. Prime among these are deteriorating job quality, imbalances represented by both ‘under education’ and ‘wasted skills’, as well as retarded productivity growth. (From Executive Summary)