Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?

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Vocational education and training for development: a policy in need of a theory?

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. This rise in policy and programmatic interest in VET's role in development, however, stands in contrast to the state of the academic debate. Whilst...

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Main Author:	McGrath, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2012
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1660/

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