Vocational education and training - VET

The move towards evidence-based policy and practice is problematic in multiple ways. It is based on a simplistic view of how straightforward evidence is and ignores a wide range of valid research approaches. In the case of vocational education and training (VET), there is neither definitional clarity nor data that would permit confidence in such an approach. Moreover, there is clear evidence that such approaches are routinely forgotten about when there is political or financial interest in promoting a particular policy position.
http://www.norrag.org/en/publications/norrag-news/online-version/value-for-money-in-international-education-a-new-world-of-results-impacts-and-outcomes/detail/the-unbearable-lightness-of-evidence-based-vet-practice-1.html