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Second chance education refers to formal educational opportunities undertaken by learners who have not been through the conventional academic pathway of school completion followed by post-school study. In general, individuals fall into two categories: young early school leavers aged up to their mid-20s who have not completed a non-school qualification; and adults aged 25 years and over who have not completed their schooling or a non-school qualification. Research in this area covers the variety of second chance options available, equity of access and participation patterns, and relevance and outcomes for students.
Research
Access items in VOCEDplus
- Enabling or access programs
- Second chance education
- Second chance education for early school leavers
- Second chance education for low-skilled adults
- Widening participation and access
Recent publications
- Adult community education program statement: a strong ACE program for 2018-19 and beyond [Australia]
- Bridges, pathways and transitions: international innovations in widening participation [international]
- Class differentials in getting parental assistance for seeking a second chance of getting into university: an illustration of community-college students in Hong Kong
- Critical moments and second-chance education constructing socially excluded women's stories of career success [Ireland]
- Do layoffs increase transitions to postsecondary education among adults? [Canada]
- Early tracking, academic vs. vocational training and the value of 'second chance' options [Germany]
- Investing in skills pays off: the economic and social cost of low-skilled adults in the EU [Europe]
- Life after school: confronting the crisis [UK]
- Life-cycle educational choices in a system with early tracking and 'second chance' options [Germany]
- Making inclusion work: reaching disenfranchised groups through work-based learning
- Second chance education: barriers, supports and engagement strategies [Australia]
- Second chance learning in Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria [Australia]
- Teaching practices that re-engage early school leavers in further education: an Australian study
- The River of Learning: building relationships in a university, school and community Indigenous widening participation collaboration [Australia]
- When higher education is possible but not desirable: widening participation and the aspirations of Australian Indigenous school students
Suggested reading
Key research from a broad date range
- A second chance at education for early school leavers [Australia]
- Investment in second-chance education for adults and income development in Sweden
- Project based learning focused on numeracy and literacy skills with Maori second chance learners [New Zealand]
- Provision of second-chance education: the Hong Kong experience
- 'Second chance' routes into higher education: Sweden, Norway and Germany compared
- Second-chance vocational education and training [Australia]
- Self-assessed returns to adult education: life-long learning and the educationally disadvantaged [Canada]
- Shedding light: private 'for profit' training providers and young early school leavers [Australia]
Resources
- A second chance for an education [US]
- Adult learning [UK]
- Adult Learning Australia
- Australian journal of adult learning (journal)
- Community Colleges Australia
- Community college journal of research and practice (journal)
- Community College Research Center [US]
- Community college review (journal)
- Is there really such a thing as a 'second chance' in education? [OECD]
- Learning and Work Institute [UK]
- New directions for community colleges (journal)
- Second chance education: Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe (EPALE)
- Second chance education: the European learning platform for teachers
