Paying for vocational education: the marketization of inequality in collective skill formation systems
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Publikationsdatum
2026
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Studiengang
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01A - Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
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Übergeordnetes Werk
Critical Studies in Education
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1-17
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Taylor & Francis
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Zusammenfassung
Rather unnoticed by policy-driven research, for-profit private vocational education and training (VET) providers are establishing themselves as a market niche within collective skill formation systems. In Switzerland and Germany, for example, an increasing number of students complete their vocational training at private schools that charge tuition. With tuition fees that are substantial yet significantly lower than those charged by elite private institutions, these private vocational schools target a broader student population and explicitly promise educational opportunities for those marginalized by the exclusionary logic of selective school and company-based VET systems. Drawing on narratively reconstructed case studies, this article examines students’ decision-making processes regarding fee-based vocational education in relation to the reproduction of social inequality. Paying for VET thus seems not merely an expression of school choice but rather a form of socially embedded agency within educational regimes in which vocational education is increasingly expected yet not systemically guaranteed. It thus appears to privatize and marketize existing education and social inequalities, both at the individual and the structural levels.
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1750-8487
1750-8495
1750-8495
Sprache
Englisch
Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt
Ja
Zukunftsfelder FHNW
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Begutachtung
peer-reviewed
Open Access-Status
Gold
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Zitation
Preite, L., & Walther, A. (2026). Paying for vocational education: the marketization of inequality in collective skill formation systems. Critical Studies in Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2026.2730090