Skills for sustainable development: transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015

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Skills for sustainable development: transforming vocational education and training beyond 2015

There have been recent calls to transform VET and to transform development. This double call leads us to ask: how can skills development best support development that is sustainable for individuals, communities and the planet, whilst promoting social justice and poverty reduction? In considering thi...

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Main Authors:	McGrath, Simon, Powell, Lesley
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2016
Subjects:	Human development; Sustainable development
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33477/

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