Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England.

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dc.cclicenceCC-BY-NCen
dc.contributor.authorMalik, Fatima
dc.date.acceptance2022-04-08
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-10T15:15:49Z
dc.date.available2022-05-10T15:15:49Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-05
dc.descriptionThe file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.en
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the underexamined idea of employer engagement as the institutional agency around the supply-demand relationship surrounding education and training (E&T) and VET in England (2012), arguing why VET needs are still likely to be unmet. A single case-study methodology and forty convergent interviews with high-skill employers and policy stakeholders revealed three types of highly constrained employer agencies, in England’s Northwest Bioregion, during a period when policy institutions faced restructuring and closure. The research is set against the backdrop of a previously failed and historically repeatedly revised VET institutional environment. In further addressing the lack of empirical evidence on the employer engagement problems faced by policy stakeholders during 2012, it reveals an individualised, voluntary, yet expected weak employer agency around supply-side initiatives. Also, a voluntary yet collective employer agency underpins the wider challenged efforts of policy stakeholders in engaging employers around E&T/VET, while also evident is a collective progressive employer agency around high-skill VET linked to R&D production. Discussions highlight the influence of supply-/demand-side constraints for current VET, questioning what has really changed.en
dc.funderNo external funderen
dc.funder.otherThis work was conducted in line with scholarship funding received from the University of Leeds.en
dc.identifier.citationMalik, F. (2022) Voluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England. Journal of Education and Work.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2022.2073341
dc.identifier.issn1363-9080
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2086/21860
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFatima Malik;
dc.researchinstitutePeople, Organisations and Work Institute (POWI)en
dc.subjectEmployer engagementen
dc.subjecthigh-skill VETen
dc.subjectinstitutional agencyen
dc.titleVoluntary and collective employer engagement and agency around the high-skill supply-demand relationship of education & training and VET in England.en
dc.typeArticleen

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