UK's VET Policy and the ‘Third Way’: following a high skills trajectory or running up a dead end street?
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Education and Work
- Vol. 12 (3) , 323-346
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1363908990120307
Abstract
This paper critiques current government policy described as a ‘'Third Way’ in vocational education and training (VET). It argues that this approach to VET is likely to fail due to the competitive strategy, largely adopted in Britain, based on price rather than quality.Keywords
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