Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities
- two Fit for purpose? Sixty years of VET policy in England
- three The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment
- four ‘I can’t believe it’s not skill’: the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications
- five Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system
- six Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? The consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change
- seven Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education
- eight Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions
- nine Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers’ involvement in education–business partnerships in the US and the UK
- ten Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond
- eleven The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation?
- twelve Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on contributors
- one Producing skills: conundrums and possibilities
- two Fit for purpose? Sixty years of VET policy in England
- three The European policy regarding education and training: a critical assessment
- four ‘I can’t believe it’s not skill’: the changing meaning of skill in the UK context and some implications
- five Qualifying for a job: an educational and economic audit of the English 14-19 education and training system
- six Does apprenticeship still have meaning in the UK? The consequences of voluntarism and sectoral change
- seven Tradition and reform: modernising the German dual system of vocational education
- eight Learning in the workplace: reappraisals and reconceptions
- nine Interests, arguments and ideologies: employers’ involvement in education–business partnerships in the US and the UK
- ten Compatible higher education systems and the European labour market: Bologna and beyond
- eleven The expansion of higher education: economic necessity or hyperinflation?
- twelve Becoming a chef: the politics and culture of learning
- Index
- Also available from The Policy Press
Summary
This book arose out of the work of Theme 3 of the ESRC-sponsored Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE). This theme was concerned with analysing the demand for skills in the economy, and the role of the education and training system in meeting such demands in the changing policy environment. What struck those of us working on the various projects within the Research Centre was how, at the turn of the 21st century, education and training continued to be a major focus of public policy across all the countries we investigated.
Balancing the skills equation brings together international authors who are in one way or another connected to SKOPE. All of us were concerned to understand the ways in which, and the extent to which, the supply and demand sides of the skills equation were linked. In addition, we also sought to understand how policy affected this linkage. We explored and developed our ideas through a series of seminars and SKOPE Working Papers. The outcome is a book that examines a related set of issues by authors writing from their own national perspectives.
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- Balancing the Skills EquationKey Issues and Challenges for Policy and Practice, pp. vPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2004