Employability for the workers - what does this mean?

Education and Training

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-66

  Little, Brenda Margaret ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher education; Part time students; Skills; United Kingdom; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551480420     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911111102360     Document Type: Article

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