In Finland, the vocational education and training (VET) qualifications lead into work. Also,
active citizenship is one of its aims, and qualification enables application to tertiary study. In …

In market-oriented higher education (HE) systems, fee-paying students are positioned as
customers, and studying is juxtaposed with service use. In this study, we investigate how …

Working-class students often face more challenges in securing graduate-level jobs than
their middle-class peers. This paper applies the concept of boundary crossing in studying …

Young vocational graduates face many expectations related to the norms of worker-
citizenship when entering the labour market. Due to contemporary uncertainties and the new …

Higher vocational education (HVE) aims to cultivate high-quality technical and skilled talents
so that the educated have the professional ethics, scientific culture, professional knowledge …

Purpose: This study focuses on courses that prepare applicants for universities' highly
competitive entrance examinations in Finland. The analysis clarifies the market-making …

In this article, we discuss how class and migrant background intersect when students
discuss their studies in general upper secondary education and their aspirations in …

In this ethnographic dissertation, literacy practices among the ninth-grade students referred
to as the" back row" are examined. The term" back row" refers to a group of students who …

This study explores the role of language and migrant students' language use in the interplay
of chronotopes (Bakhtin 1981) and language ideologies (Blommaert 1999) in vocational …

Despite rising participation rates in Portugal, a gap persists between general and vocational
upper secondary students' transition to higher education (HE). This study employs a …