Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training

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About the Journal Scope and Aims Within the ambit of ‘post-schooling’ which in the South African context is directed at all those beyond the age of compulsory formal and general education, are youth and adults in public and private vocational colleges, adult learning centres, and universities; those employed and unemployed (White Paper on Post-School Education and Training, 2013). This broad and diverse set of institutions have been the target of sustained reform initiatives over the past 20 years in an attempt, inter alia, to bring about systemic alignment, transformation and improved outcomes. The processes towards transformative goals have entailed a range of research and development interventions including those aimed at curricula, staff development, structures and systems; and student support, amongst others. In 2013, the IPSS brought together three specialist units at the University of the Western Cape that had longstanding expertise in Adult Education studies, TVET and Higher Education studies. Students at institutions in these domains and potential students, at workplaces or unemployed, face particular barriers in traversing across disparate institutional systems, hence the IPSS’s concern too with cross-cutting post-school issues and synergies. Adult education, higher education and vocational education studies are recognised conceptual domains of knowledge and research. Of the three, in South Africa at least, higher education studies have historically been more prominent and have generated the most scholarship. Despite its critical importance to the development of human resource capacity across the African continent, research in vocational and continuing education and training remains under-developed and marginalised , hence a substantial need exists for a platform from which new knowledge in the field can be disseminated and ideas about practice can be debated and interrogated. This recognition gave impetus to the desire to establish a new journal for vocat

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