Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

Elizabeth Knight is a Research Fellow at the Centre for International Research on Education Systems within Victoria University, Australia.Ann-Marie Bathmaker is Professor of Vocational and Higher Education at the University of Birmingham, UK.Gavin Moodie is Adjunct Professor at the Department of Leadership, Higher, and Adult Education in the University of Toronto, Canada.Kevin Orr is Professor of Work and Learning and Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) at the University of Huddersfield, UK.Susan Webb is Professor of Education at Monash University, Australia and was previously Professor of Continuing Education at the University of Sheffield, UK.Leesa Wheelahan is the William G. Davis Chair of Community College Leadership at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

• Introduction; Editors.- 1. Systems hierarchical and parallel / A typology of tertiary education systems; Moodie, Gavin.- 2. Theorising the space for higher education outside the University sector; Editor.- 3. The limited growth of applied degrees in colleges in liberal market economies; Wheelahan, Leesa.- 4. Country study – England; Orr, Kevin & Bathmaker, Ann-Marie.- 5. Country study – Australia; Rawolle, Shaun; Hodge, Steven; Webb, Sue & Knight, Elizabeth.- 6. Country study - Germany; Graf, Lukas & Powell, Justin.- 7. Country study – South Africa; Papier, Joy.- 8. Province study – Québec;  Begin-Caouette, Olivier and Beaupré-Lavallée,.- 9. Country study – Canada; Skolnik, Michael.- 10. Country study – UK; Reeve, Fiona & Gallacher, Jim.- 11. Country study – Chile; Lincovil Belma, Cristian.- 12. Country Study – USA; Floyd, Deborah & Falconetti, Angela.- 13. Country Study – China; Zha, Qiang.- 14. Conclusion; Gale, Trevor.