Individual learning accounts: Honourable intentions, ignoble utility?

Research in Post-Compulsory Education

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 133-146

  Thursfield, Denise ^a   Smith, Vikki ^a   Holden, Rick ^a   Hamblett, John ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33847195563     PISSN: 13596748     EISSN: 17475112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13596740200200128     Document Type: Article

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