Consequently, whilst this book elaborate what constitutes the contemporary provision of vocational education in the Netherlands also addresses a broader concern of how vocational education systems become formed, manifested within nation states, and then are transformed through particular imperatives, institutional arrangement and localised factors. They are shaped by specific national imperatives, sentiments and localised concerns.
Yet, they are more than mere versions of what had or is occurring elsewhere. Each wave of reforms, however, has had particular emphases, and directed to achieve particular policy outcomes.
Like elsewhere, the impetuses for these reforms are directed to generating a more industry-responsive, locally-accountable and competence-based vocational education system. This book discusses how the Dutch vocational education system has undergone significant waves of reform driven by global imperatives, national concerns and governmental policy goals.
