Balancing the Skills Equation: Key Issues and Challenges for Policy and Practice

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Key Issues and Challenges for Policy and Practice

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Edited by Geoff Hayward, Susan James

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2022
Print publication year:: 2004
Online ISBN:: 9781847426017
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847426017

Subjects:: Employment Law, Law

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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.

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Balancing the Skills Equation

Key Issues and Challenges for Policy and Practice

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iii

Acknowledgements
pp iv-iv

Preface
pp v-v

Notes on contributors
pp vi-viii

one - Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities
pp 1-12

two - Fit for purpose? Sixty years of VET policy in England
pp 13-34

three - The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment
pp 35-52

four - ‘I can’t believe it’s not skill’: the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications
pp 53-76

five - Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system
pp 77-100

six - Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? The consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change
pp 101-116

seven - Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education
pp 117-148

eight - Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions
pp 149-170

nine - Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers’ involvement in education–business partnerships in the US and the UK
pp 171-186

ten - Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond
pp 187-202

eleven - The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation?
pp 203-218

twelve - Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning
pp 219-244

Index
pp 245-254

Also available from The Policy Press
pp 255-256

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