Building Pathways: Apprenticeships as a route to higher education

Education and Training

Volumn 47, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 270-282

  Bowers Brown, Tamsin ^a   Berry, David ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apprenticeships; Employers; Further education; Higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444491598     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910510601869     Document Type: Article

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