The paper uses a mixed-methods design, using seeded LDA topic modelling to analyse standardized descriptions of VET systems. It finds that language associated with state involvement grew notably in most EU member states compared to private governance between 2005 and 2022.

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training

2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies

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Join us in Milano in August 2025 for the #ESPAnet conference to present your research on the the politics or policies of education.

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Thanks @irobo.bsky.social and Julia Schulte-Cloos for having me! Next up: a presentation in the new Empirical Social Science Reseach Seminar Series next Wednesday. Just reget having missed the last presentation by @garritzmannj.bsky.social

How fun can teaching be? Today was the last day of my Computational Text Analysis seminar @UniMarburg. Super proud of the progress the students made. Most had little to no prior R-knowledge. Today they presented impressive results having applied (un)supervised machine learning and more