Vocational Education and Training in Rural Schools: Education for the Community.

Abstract

Rural high schools have expanded their programs in recent years to include vocational education and training (VET) courses (Chiswell et al forthcoming). While VET in schools programs were established primarily to address the needs of Year 11 and 12 students, there has been an unexpected interest and participation by adults in these programs in Tasmanian rural schools. This suggests that the