Challenges of Quality Assurance for Vocational Education and Training institutions Facing the Mandatory Accreditation System in Chile.
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https://doi.org/10.31619/caledu.n56.1133Keywords:
vocational education and training, quality assurance, cluster analysis, higher education, postsecondary education, classificationAbstract
This research addresses a comprehension of diversity and future challenges of the Vocational Education and Training institutions, from the perspective of a new characterization. This work classified this group of institutions in 4 main clusters, built from a statistical analysis of education public databases.
The significance of this study emerged from the new requirements for accreditation established by Higher Education Act (21.091), which, from the view of these authors, set specific tensions to this education segment.
From the perspective of these authors, two specific factors retard the Vocational Education and Training system development. On one hand, there is an unfulfilled promise for this system, in terms of articulation and quality. On the other hand, despite important advances in recent years, higher education continues to have a strong focus on universities, not recognizing the particularities and diversity of the VET system.
This research aims to contribute to the quality assurance system through a new methodological approach to this sector, seeking to characterize needs and challenges for each of the identified clusters.
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