The new skills agenda: Increased lifelong learning or new sites of inequality?

British Educational Research Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 703-717

  Appleby, Yvon ^a   Bathmaker, Ann Marie ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33748575886     PISSN: 01411926     EISSN: 14693518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411920600895742     Document Type: Review

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