Education research and post-vocational degree occupations

Country:
Denmark

Sub-programme of a wider initiative or programme:

Official identification number or abbreviation:

Duration:

2008- (so far it is running until the end of 2011)

Funding budget:

Varying. 2010: 27 mill. DKK, 2011: 30-50 mill. DKK

Homepage:
http://en.fi.dk/dcsr

Funding body / financing organisation:

The Danish Council for Strategic Research

Challenges and objectives:

A research effort in education, comprising post-vocational degree occupations, is to contribute to raising the level of education and competence in the Danish population and to improving the quality of the education programmes so that as many as possible receive a qualifying education and the competences of the Danish population develop in step with the challenges that arise in a globalised world. It is a significant challenge to strengthen the quality of education programmes at all levels to ensure that they meet the future needs for competence and new knowledge that exist on both the private and the public labour market. Education is also to ensure that the public obtain competences that enable them to play a part in society in a wide sense and to manage on the international level. There is need for coherence between the different levels of education and fields of study to enable as many people as possible to acquire qualifications and competences. The education system is to contribute to promoting a culture of learning that furthers creativity, independence, innovation skills and entrepreneurship. A strategic research effort can encompass teaching, learning and competence development in all life stages from pre-school, school and youth education programmes to vocational education, higher education and working life.

Thematic areas / main focuses:

Funding can for instance be provided for research into the following problems: Intervention research relating to studies of what is effective in educational contexts and which will thereby contribute to evidential development of education programmes Cost-benefit analyses of at what stage in education interventions will be most effective, and which interventions produce the best results Comparative or other studies that will contribute to shedding light on how Danish study programmes may be improved Research in the basis for the students’ choice or rejection of study programme – including studies of the factors influencing youth education choices in the short and the long term, and of the significance of a growing international market for youth education choices Research into the needs of the labour market and which describes how the education programmes best match labour market demand Research shedding light on the degree of satisfaction with work life including access to supplementary training Research into the research founding of practice, including research shedding light on the relationship between the theories taught at the study programmes and the practice period Educational management in a broad sense, for example management in relation to transnational players, collaboration with public authorities, education in relation to the business community and educational management at school level Research into subject didactic problems Research investigating processes of marginalisation caused by gender, ethnicity, handicaps, social background etc. and that develops methods for counteracting these processes Research into the development of children and young people’s cognitive and social competences

Related to Working Group(s):
Education & Learning

Foreseen results and outcomes:

Setting and methods:

Disciplines and institutions addressed:

Funding scheme and procedure:

2-phase application procedure

Key topics for inclusion of foreign partners:

Foreign partner are very welcome

Remarks:

Organisation:

Department:

First Name:

Surname:
Hougaard

Title:
Head of Section

Function:

Address:
Bredgade 40, 1260 Copenhagen K

Phone:
+45 35446248

Fax:

E-Mail:
siho@fi.dk

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