Basic skills and workplace learning: What do we actually know about their benefits?

Studies in Continuing Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 289-308

  Ananiadou, Katerina ^a   Jenkins, Andrew ^a   Wolf, Alison ^a  

^a Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748461730     PISSN: 0158037X     EISSN: 1470126X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/158037042000225263     Document Type: Article

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