Vocational Training: International Perspectives (Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context)

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Synopsis
The last decade has given rise to a strong public discourse in most highly industrialized economies about the importance of a skilled workforce as a key response to the competitive dynamic fostered by economic globalisation. The challenge for different training regimes is twofold: attracting young people into the vocational training system while continuing to train workers already in employment. Yet, on the whole, most countries and their training systems have failed to reach those goals. How can we explain this contradiction? Why is vocational training seen to be an "old" institution? Why does vocational training not seem to be easily adapted to the realities of the 21st century? This book seeks to respond to these important questions. It does so through an in-depth comparative analysis of the vocational training systems in ten different countries: Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, the United Kingdom and the USA.
Copyright:
2009

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ISBN-13:
9781135254742
Related ISBNs:
9780203869574, 9781138986794, 9780415467216, 9780415467216, 9781138986794, 9781138959750, 9781138959750
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Gerhard Bosch, Jean Charest
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Education, Sociology
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Gerhard Bosch
Edited by:
Jean Charest

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