Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges

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Advancing life projects: South African students explain why they come to FET colleges

VET policy in South Africa is based on a set of assumptions regarding the identity of learners and why learners are in public further education and training (FET) colleges. These assumptions reflect an international orthodoxy about the centrality of employability that is located within what Giddens...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Powell, Lesley, McGrath, Simon
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Malaya Press 2014
Subjects:	Vocational Education and Training South Africa Further Education and Training colleges employability
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32262/

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