Market-relevant competencies for professional foresters in European graduate education

International Forestry Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 200-208

  Arevalo, J ^a   Pitaknen S ^a   Gritten, D ^a   Tahvanainen, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

competencies; curriculum; employability; Forestry graduate education; Master programmes

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION REFORM; EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; FORESTRY; HIGHER EDUCATION; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77957725273     PISSN: 14655489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1505/ifor.12.3.200     Document Type: Article

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