Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence?: The struggle over new policy for workforce development in England

Workplace Learning in Context

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 279-298

  Coffield, Frank ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LSDA ^*  (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67650906183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203571644     Document Type: Chapter

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