GNVQs and the future ofbroad vocational qualifications

Dearing and Beyond: 14-19 Qualifications, Frameworks and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 57-74

  Spours, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 2342538710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315041902-9     Document Type: Chapter

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