ABSTRACT

Recent studies in Australia have found that bachelor's degree participation in vocational institutions in Australia tends to skew towards students from high and middle socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. This outcome runs counter to overall vocational participation which is dominated by students from low and middle SES backgrounds. This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) to confirm findings from a mixed-methods study on bachelor courses in vocational institutions by school leaver-aged students. It characterises the student population in such courses and examines evidence on the influence of determinants of bachelor participation in vocational institutions, in relation to measures of family background, wealth and cultural status and school type. It is found that students entering bachelor programs in vocational education have higher household levels of cultural possession, are more likely to plan to enter university, and have higher self-assessments of academic ability than those undertaking traditional vocational qualification pathways, but lower than those who undertook bachelor qualifications at university.

摘要

澳大利亚最近的研究发现，在澳大利亚职业院校获得学士学位的学生往往偏向于具有中高社会经济地位 (SES) 背景的学生。这一结果与由来自中低社会经济地位背景的学生主导的整体职业参与背道而驰。本文使用来自澳大利亚青年纵向调查 (LSAY) 的数据来确认对离校年龄学生在职业院校学习的学士学位课程的混合方法研究的结果。它描述了此类课程中的学生群体的特征，并检查了与家庭背景、财富和文化地位以及学校类型相关的决定学士参与职业院校的决定因素影响的证据。