Journal of Vocational Adult and Continuing Education and Training

Journal of Vocational Adult and Continuing Education and Training is published by COMPRESS.dsl. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Education Systems and Policy, Vocational Education and Training and Vocational and Entrepreneurial Education, together about 60.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Scope and Aims Within the ambit of ‘post-schooling’ which in the South African context is directed at all those beyond the age of compulsory formal and general education, are youth and adults in public and private vocational colleges, adult learning centres, and universities; those employed and unemployed (White Paper on Post-School Education and Training, 2013). This broad and diverse set of institutions have been the target of sustained reform initiatives over the past 20 years in an attempt, inter alia, to bring about systemic alignment, transformation and improved outcomes. The processes towards transformative goals have entailed a range of research and development interventions including those aimed at curricula, staff development, structures and systems; and student support, amongst others. In 2013, the IPSS brought together three specialist units at the University of the Western Cape that had longstanding expertise in Adult Education studies, TVET and Higher Education studies. Students at institutions in these domains and potential students, at workplaces or unemployed, face particular barriers in traversing across disparate institutional systems, hence the IPSS’s concern too with cross-cutting post-school issues and synergies. Adult education, higher education and vocational education studies are recognised conceptual domains of knowledge and research. Of the three, in South Africa at least, higher education studies have historically been more prominent and have generated the most scholarship. Despite its critical importance to the development of human resource capacity across the African continent, research in vocational and continuing education and training remains under-developed and marginalised, hence a substantial need exists for a platform from which new knowledge in the field can be disseminated and ideas about practice can be debated and interrogated. This recognition gave impetus to the desire to establish a new journal for vocational and continuing education and training in the South African context, but also on the African continent. The Journal for Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training (JOVACET) recognises the need for critical engagement through studies in TVET and Adult/Continuing education and training, and for encouraging critical scrutiny of this expansive knowledge area on the African continent. The voices and experiences of practitioners, reflecting on all aspects of teaching and learning within vocational educ

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Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 4, Canada 1, Australia 1, Netherlands 1, Switzerland 1 (9 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

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Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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Impact

h-index

11OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

16OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.88OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 14 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 14 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

COMPRESS.dsl

Country or region

South Africa

Language

English

ISSN

2663-3639

Electronic ISSN

2663-3647

Latest issue on the website

Volume 8, Issue 1 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
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• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub
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