Ivory Towers and Glass Ceilings: Women in Non-traditional Fields

Bell, Sharon

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0315-8_7

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“…Gender is a critical determinant of bachelor participation, partly as a consequence of the expansion in Australian higher education, widening participation policies and changes in broader education policy (Bell, 2016), but also the increasing perception of the importance of bachelor degree education to female workforce participation and outcomes (Le & Miller, 2004). In the context of the decision to attend a vocational or higher education institution, the evidence from national studies of earnings by qualification, indicates that female students see relatively lower increases in earnings due to vocational training compared to males.…”

Section: The Determinants Of Higher Education Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bachelor degree participation in vocational institutions: examining the determinants of participation

Koshy

Webb

Dockery

et al. 2021

International Journal of Training Research

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Recent studies in Australia have found that bachelor's degree participation in vocational institutions in Australia tends to skew towards students from high and middle socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. This outcome runs counter to overall vocational participation which is dominated by students from low and middle SES backgrounds. This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to confirm findings from a mixed-methods study on bachelor courses in vocational institutions by school leaver-aged students. It characterises the student population in such courses and examines evidence on the influence of determinants of bachelor participation in vocational institutions, in relation to measures of family background, wealth and cultural status and school type. It is found that students entering bachelor programs in vocational education have higher household levels of cultural possession, are more likely to plan to enter university, and have higher self-assessments of academic ability than those undertaking traditional vocational qualification pathways, but lower than those who undertook bachelor qualifications at university.

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Section: The Determinants Of Higher Education Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%