Editorial: The lack of teaching staff and new teacher training entrants in the industrial-technical subjects at vocational colleges

Abstract

This special edition of the Journal of Technical Education entitled "The lack of teaching staff and new teacher training entrants in the industrial-technical subjects at vocational colleges" examines a topic that now runs like a golden thread through the debate on vocational education and research into teacher training in the field of occupational education. The issue of the lack of teaching staff at vocational colleges is consistently the focus of public discussion and papers published within the academic community. This debate on the lack of teaching staff at industrial vocational colleges is currently highly topical again in terms of educational policy, too!