Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:22:39 GMT

Low-paid workers, changing patterns of work and life, and participation in VET. This item includes an audio recording of an interview with researcher Barbara Pocock; the accompanying interview transcript; and the occasional paper itself. In this interview, Steve Davis talks with researcher Barbara Pocock about her paper, ‘Low-paid workers, changing patterns of work and life, and participation in vocational education and training’. This paper outlines the issues emerging from the first year of research undertaken by University of South Australia’s Centre for Work + Life on what influences people’s decisions to participate in vocational education and training, particularly for low-skilled and low-paid workers (that is, those earning less than $15 per hour). [edna]