Journal Information
Eight step guide on how to get published in JVET
JVET receives around 300 submissions every year, of which we will publish around 40. The vast majority of the remainder are rejected before the peer review process – either as they do not fall within the scope of the journal or because they are insufficiently rigorous to meet our standards of scholarship.
We’ve now published a guide to provide potential authors with some insight into the editors’ initial evaluation of the submissions we receive to help you to assess whether this is the right journal for you and to improve the chance of your paper being accepted. It is structured around eight questions that the editors tend to ask themselves when a new submission arrives. Read more
Exploring possibilities and expectations of future research in VET
Former JVET editor Professor Alison Fuller, whose work on apprenticeship and learning at work has been hugely influential over the last 20 years, talks about research in Vocational Education and Training. Her insights cover the themes that have come to dominate VET research, the role of journals in shaping and reflecting these, and the possibilities and expectations of future research, with invaluable advice for aspiring researchers. View the Bill Esmond interview with Alison Fuller here.
JVET Special Issue:
Now published online…
Our latest special issue explores Skills for a Sustainable Future.
Special Issue Editors:
Dr Presha Ramsarup (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Professor Simon McGrath (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
The issue explores the scale and urgency of the climate emergency that means that major transformations across a range of human systems are both necessary and inevitable; although what is inevitable and what is necessary may not always correspond. Necessarily, this has profound implications for worlds of work and, hence, for vocational education and training systems. Yet, the mainstream VET literature has been very slow to respond to such challenges, and only a handful of papers have been written.
This Special Issue reflects on wider issues of the relationship between skills and sustainable futures that builds on the accounts of the more broadly focused earlier papers in the special issue, before coming to some discussion of more particular themes at micro and meso levels that reflect the contributions of the second half of the special issue. The Special Issue concludes with some thoughts and questions about the immediate challenges to research in this area.