Balancing the skills equation : key issues and challenges for policy and practice /: key issues and challenges for policy and practice. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Geoff Hayward and Susan James.
• Other Names: Hayward, Geoff; James, Susan, 1972-
• Contents: Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities / Geoff Hayward and Susan James -- Fit for purpose? : sixty years of VET policy in England / Geoff Stanton and Bill Bailey -- The European policy regarding education and training : a critical assessment / Jean-Luc De Meulemeester and Denis Rochat -- 'I can't believe it's not skill' : the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications / Ewart Keep and Jonathan Payne -- Qualifying for a job : an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system / Rosa M. Fernández and Geoff Hayward -- Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? : the consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change / Alison Fuller and Lorna Unwin -- Tradition and reform : modernising the German dual system of vocational education / Hubert Ertl -- Learning in the workplace : reappraisals and reconceptions / Stephen Billett -- Interest, arguments and ideologies : employers' involvement in education-business partnerships in the US and the UK / Suzanne Greenwald -- Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market : Bologna and beyond / Guy Haug -- The expansion of higher education : economic necessity or hyperinflation? / Cécile Deer -- Becoming a chef : the politics and culture of learning / Susan James and Geoff Hayward.
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Policy Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 254 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 331.2592; Manpower policy; Skilled labor -- Government policy; Labor supply -- Effect of education on; Occupational training -- Government policy; Vocational education -- Government policy; Employees -- Training of -- Government policy; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Training; Employees -- Training of -- Government policy; Labor supply -- Effect of education on; Manpower policy; Occupational training -- Government policy; Skilled labor -- Government policy; Vocational education -- Government policy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847426017; 1847426018
• Related ISBNs: 1861345763; 9781861345769; 1861345755; 9781861345752
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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