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Education Versus Qualifications?: A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour book cover

1st Edition

Education Versus Qualifications? A Study of Relationships Between Education, Selection for Employment and the Productivity of Labour

Edited By John Oxenham Copyright 1984
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1984, this book investigates the validity of educational qualifications: how they are determined, what justifications exist for them and how they change. It examines the assumption linking education and productivity and explores the belief that the ways in which scholastic qualifications are acquired distort education. In the investigations, the labour market, the school... Read more

Part 1: Interactions Between Employment and Education: The Impulse From Employers 1. Educational Reform and Selection for Employment – An Overview Ronald Dore and John Oxenham 2. Employers, Jobs and Qualifications John Oxenham 3. Education, Earnings and Productivity – The Eternal Triangle Angela Little Part 2: The Effects of Selections on Education 4. Selection and Curriculum Reform Keith Lewin 5. The Influence of Certification and Selection on Teaching and Learning Nigel Brooke and John Oxenham 6. Severing the Links Between education and Careers: The Sobering Experience of China’s Urban Schools Jonathan Unger Part 3: Reconciling Efficient Selection with Good Education and Equity 7. Combating the Diploma Disease Angela Little.

Biography

John Oxenham

Original Review of Education Versus Qualifications?

‘…thoroughly researched and wide-ranging…’ Gary McCulloch, Access: Contemporary Issues in Education, Vol 3, No. 2 (1984)

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