Developing the competent learner

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 66-72

  Robotham, David ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Learning; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956307173     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197850410524833     Document Type: Article

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