School completion targets and the 'equivalence' of VET in the Australian context

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 367-382

  Polesel, John ^a   Keating, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 80052187759     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2010.547316     Document Type: Article

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