Editorial: Spring 2026

This is the first issue of the 16th volume of the Nordic Journal of Vocational Education and Training!Our journal is a forum for research on vocational education and training (VET) in the Nordic countries and beyond.Here, we are presenting research from four Nordic countries -Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark -and from South Africa.In addition to this, the Finnish study also has a co-author from Estonia.The articles cover a broad spectrum of topics: dialogue, democratisation, and repoliticisation of VET; person-centred group counselling; VET teachers' agency in teaching migrant students; students' perspectives on absence from work-based learning; and finally, a scoping review of research on social and health care education.We hope that these articles will provide new insights in these different aspects of VET! Five new