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

by Geoff Hayward

Book Overview

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. The book focuses on key issues relating to the high skills agenda: skills and political economy; different investment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861345755
• ISBN13: 9781861345752
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"