Israel's vocational training

Adrian Ziderman

No 25, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: Eighty percent of the trainees headed for Israel's labor force go to full-time vocational secondary schools that devote a third to a half of the curriculum time to general studies. Students tend to come from a higher socioeconomic level than those in other training programs. The rest of Israel's vocational students are evenly divided among the Ministry of Labor's remaining three programs: the apprenticeship schools; the industrial schools; and the full-time training courses. Of the four types of training in Israel, vocational school is by far the most expensive. This paper confirms an earlier study that the apprenticeship system was the most cost-effective. However, to conclude that vocational training schools are not cost-effective is to ignore part of the picture. The goals of the vocational secondary school in Israel extend beyond those of providing usable labor market skills. In any cost-benefit evaluation of vocational schooling, these goals would have to be given more weight.

Keywords: Teaching and Learning; Gender and Education; Primary Education; Vocational&Technical Education; Girls Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988-07-31
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