On the way to higher education: Reflections on the importance of work-place conditions and the team to promote educational pathways

Vocational education and training helps young people to quickly and effectively enter the labour market. To advance their careers and to develop their professional expertise, even more, they must then further their education through higher vocational or higher academic education. In a recent study, we found distinct predictors for those engaged in higher academic education than for those engaged in higher vocational education. Whereas higher academic education is predicted by high social status, no migration background and a high value of further education, engagement in higher vocational education is predicted by high learning opportunities at work, low social support and a high value of further education. In reflecting these findings, it is discussed what factors help to turn a workplace into a learning place: can a reflection on factors that What makes a workplace a learning place: organisational norms and values, workplace conditions and the team / the colleagues