The foes of icelandic vocational education at the upper secondary level

Education and the Scandinavian Welfare State in the Year 2000: Equality, Policy, and Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 267-303

  Jónasson, Jon Torfi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315051352-23     Document Type: Chapter

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