James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has written extensively on the policy contextualisation of Further Education and has a keen interest in its political economy. Recent books include Education, Policy and Social Justice and Teaching in Lifelong Learning.

• Introduction: Global reconstructions of vocational education and training James Avis 1. State sector strategies: the new workforce development in the USA Richard D. Lakes 2. Liberal conservatism, vocationalism and further education in England Roy Fisher and Robin Simmons 3. The social composition of VET in New Zealand Rob Strathdee 4. Vocational education and learning in higher education Cynthia Paes de Carvalho 5. Training ‘expendable’ workers: temporary foreign workers in nursing Alison Taylor, Jason Foster and Carolina Cambre 6. Multi-level policy transfer in Turkey and its impact on the development of the vocational education and training (VET) sector Antje Barabasch and Stefanie Petrick

James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has written extensively on the policy contextualisation of Further Education and has a keen interest in its political economy. Recent books include Education, Policy and Social Justice and Teaching in Lifelong Learning.

• Introduction: Global reconstructions of vocational education and training James Avis 1. State sector strategies: the new workforce development in the USA Richard D. Lakes 2. Liberal conservatism, vocationalism and further education in England Roy Fisher and Robin Simmons 3. The social composition of VET in New Zealand Rob Strathdee 4. Vocational education and learning in higher education Cynthia Paes de Carvalho 5. Training ‘expendable’ workers: temporary foreign workers in nursing Alison Taylor, Jason Foster and Carolina Cambre 6. Multi-level policy transfer in Turkey and its impact on the development of the vocational education and training (VET) sector Antje Barabasch and Stefanie Petrick

James Avis is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education and Training at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has written extensively on the policy contextualisation of Further Education and has a keen interest in its political economy. Recent books include Education, Policy and Social Justice and Teaching in Lifelong Learning.

• Introduction: Global reconstructions of vocational education and training James Avis 1. State sector strategies: the new workforce development in the USA Richard D. Lakes 2. Liberal conservatism, vocationalism and further education in England Roy Fisher and Robin Simmons 3. The social composition of VET in New Zealand Rob Strathdee 4. Vocational education and learning in higher education Cynthia Paes de Carvalho 5. Training ‘expendable’ workers: temporary foreign workers in nursing Alison Taylor, Jason Foster and Carolina Cambre 6. Multi-level policy transfer in Turkey and its impact on the development of the vocational education and training (VET) sector Antje Barabasch and Stefanie Petrick