Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa

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Exploring the value of the capability approach for vocational education and training evaluation: reflections from South Africa

In the late 1990s, South Africa was faced with the triple challenge of reforming the Apartheid divided institutional landscape of vocational education and training (VET) institutions; addressing equitable access to skills; and reorienting its skills development system to the nation’s insertion into...

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Main Authors:	Powell, Lesley, McGrath, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Developpement (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) 2014
Subjects:	Vocational Education and Training (VET) evaluation capabilities approach skills development South Africa Further Education and Training (FET) colleges
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31843/

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