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Balancing the skills equation
eBook - Key issues and challenges for policy and practice
ISBN/EAN: 9781847426017
Umbreit-Nr.: 9937828
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 264 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 27.10.2004
Auflage: 1/2004
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically examines this 'high skills' vision at both policy and practice levels. It challenges an oversimplified policy rhetoric that underestimates the complexity of the processes involved in developing a skilled workforce. The book focuses on key issues relating to the high skills agenda: skills and political economy; different investment strategies for producing skills; qualification systems and learning. A multidisciplinary team of authors from a range of disciplines, including economics, management and education, provides the cross-cutting international and comparative analysis. Editorial comment links their explorations to wider questions of skill formation processes and overarching questions are addressed through in-depth analysis of the roles of higher education, apprenticeship and formal school learning in skill formation.
- Kurztext
- Governments worldwide assume that national competitiveness can be improved by developing workforce skills. This book critically examines this 'high skills' vision at both policy and practice levels. It challenges an oversimplified policy rhetoric that underestimates the complexity of the processes involved in developing a skilled workforce.