Vocational training and new production concepts in Germany: some lessons for Britain
- 1 December 1990
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Industrial Relations Journal
- Vol. 21 (4) , 247-259
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2338.1990.tb00609.x
Abstract
This article shows the pivotal role, played by the German system of vocational education and training, in the emergence of a new manufacturing policy. It offers a critique of recent changes in British training policy and practice and suggests further radical revisions in that area, in order to break out of the vicious circle of low training effort–low technology–low competitiveness.Keywords
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