Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities
- two Fit for purpose? Sixty years of VET policy in England
- three The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment
- four ‘I can’t believe it’s not skill’: the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications
- five Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system
- six Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? The consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change
- seven Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education
- eight Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions
- nine Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers’ involvement in education–business partnerships in the US and the UK
- ten Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond
- eleven The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation?
- twelve Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities
- two Fit for purpose? Sixty years of VET policy in England
- three The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment
- four ‘I can’t believe it’s not skill’: the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications
- five Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system
- six Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? The consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change
- seven Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education
- eight Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions
- nine Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers’ involvement in education–business partnerships in the US and the UK
- ten Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond
- eleven The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation?
- twelve Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
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- Balancing the Skills EquationKey Issues and Challenges for Policy and Practice, pp. 245 - 254Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2004