The rise and fall of workplace basic skills programmes: Lessons for policy and practice

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 385-405

  Wolf, Alison ^a   Aspin, Liam ^b   Waite, Edmund ^c   Ananiadou, Katerina ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d OECD   (France)

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EID: 77955624073     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2010.494448     Document Type: Article

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