1st Edition
Vocational Studies, Lifelong Learning and Social Values Investigating Education, Training and NVQs Under the New Deal
By Terry Hyland
Copyright 1999
239 Pages
by
Routledge
239 Pages
by
Routledge
239 Pages
by
Routledge
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Published in 1999. Lifelong learning is the slogan with which the Labour Government has chosen to publicise and popularise its values and policies for post-16 education and training under the new administration. Dr. Hyland’s book subjects New Labour policy - particularly developments surrounding the University for Industry and the New Deal - to searching scrutiny and offers a number of... Read more
1. Lifelong learning and post-school education and training 2. The reconstruction of education and training 3. Vocational skills, qualifications and NVQs 4. Employers and vocational education and training 5. New Labour policy and the post compulsory sector 6. The emerging national system of education and training 7. Values and vocational studies 8. Lifelong learning and new deal values in the learning age
Biography
Terry Hyland
’This book constitutes one of the first philosophical and policy critiques of New Labour’s vocational education and training policies. It will be of interest to lecturers, tutors, instructors and students working in post-compulsory education and training, as well as to industrialists.’ Education and Training ’...a very important contribution to understanding lifelong learning, and the policy and systemic implications of the competing concepts.’ Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
