Destinations after higher education non-completion: the role of social background and pre-tertiary vocational qualifications

IF 1.6 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI:10.1186/s40461-024-00161-5
Nicole Tieben
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Prior research has shown that students from lower socio-economic backgrounds are less likely to graduate. We examine if this can be explained by background-specific pathways into higher education. Many students in Germany enter higher education with a vocational qualification and prior vocational qualifications occur more often among students from lower socio-economic backgrounds. We argue that vocational qualifications shift opportunity structures and opportunity costs of students who have to decide between continuing higher education and alternative options. We therefore examine if parental background and vocational qualifications are associated with the destinations after non-completion. We distinguish the destinations “re-entering higher education”, “vocational training” and “skilled employment”. Using the German Educational Panel Study (NEPS starting cohort 6), we apply competing risks models. Our results show that non-completers from higher socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to re-enter higher education than non-completers from lower socio-economic backgrounds. The higher rates of transfer to skilled employment among non-completers from lower backgrounds are mainly due to the fact that they more often hold a vocational qualification and have good chances to enter the skilled labour market without additional educational investments. Our results hence shed some new light on the question how vocational training “diverts” lower background students from higher education.

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未完成高等教育后的去向:社会背景和高等教育前职业资格的作用
先前的研究表明,社会经济背景较差的学生毕业的可能性较低。我们研究了是否可以通过特定背景的高等教育途径来解释这一现象。在德国,许多学生都是凭借职业资格进入高等教育的,而在社会经济背景较差的学生中,获得职业资格的比例更高。我们认为,职业资格改变了学生的机会结构和机会成本,他们必须在继续接受高等教育和其他选择之间做出决定。因此,我们研究了父母背景和职业资格是否与未完成学业后的去向有关。我们区分了 "重新接受高等教育"、"职业培训 "和 "技术就业 "这三种去向。我们利用德国教育面板研究(NEPS,起始组群 6),采用了竞争风险模型。结果显示,与社会经济背景较低的未完成学业者相比,社会经济背景较高的未完成学业者更有可能重新接受高等教育。社会经济背景较低的未完成学业者转入技能型就业的比例较高,这主要是因为他们通常拥有职业资格,无需额外的教育投资就有很好的机会进入技能型劳动力市场。因此,我们的研究结果为职业培训如何将出身较低的学生从高等教育中 "分流 "的问题提供了一些新的思路。
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期刊介绍: The main focus of this journal is to provide a platform for original empirical investigations in the field of professional, vocational and technical education, comparing the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of different vocational education systems at the school, company and systemic level. The journal fills a gap in the existing literature focusing on empirically-oriented academic research and stimulating the interest in strengthening the vocational part of the educational system, both at the basic and higher education level.
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