Assessing the value: Work-based learning placements for post-graduate human resource development students?

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 735-755

  Morse, Shona M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Learning methods; Placements; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751020265     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590610715040     Document Type: Article

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