Matković, Teo (2023) Gentle guidance does it?: are public employment service recommendations affecting adjustment of IVET capacities in Croatia? In: Vocational education and training transformations for digital, sustainable and socially fair future: proceedings of the 5th Crossing Boundaries Conference in Vocational Education and Training, Kaunas, 25.-26. May 2023. European Research Network on Vocational Education and Training (VETNET), Kaunas, pp. 300-305. ISBN 9798390503386
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Abstract
Since 2010 the Croatian Employment Service (CES) annually produces detailed regional “Recommendations for enrollment and granting policy in education”. Schools, Counties and Ministry of Education are to consider those recommendations in their planning, but no compliance mechanism was mandated for this labor market information input. This paper analytically explores the way in which the education system responds to outside signals by using a course-school-year panel of entry places and actual enrollments in publicly-funded VET in Croatia in 2013-2021 period, and respective set of county-level recommendations. We estimate whether either the observed changes in administratively defined places in VET courses, or actual enrollment are responsive to recommendations. Both descriptive table and analytical models indicate a certain level of responsiveness of education system stakeholders to recommendations. However, it is a weak one, with institutions often adjusting capacities in opposite direction, with demographics and unfilled capacities playing a greater role in determining change. The direct effect of recommendations on enrollment demand was not identified. Such findings are coherent with a statist skill production regime with corporatism at the margin, and with general resilience of the institutions responsible for VET supply to external input.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. - Second publisher: Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy, Institute of Educational Science. - Book editors: Vidmantas Tūtlys, Lina Vaitkutė, Christof Nägel. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Skill intelligence, VET capacity adjustment, enrolment policy recommendations, panel analysis, Croatia |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > L Education (General) |
| Depositing User: | Karolina |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2023 11:21 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2023 11:51 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/1096 |
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