Tackling the crisis facing young people: Building 'high opportunity progression eco-systems'

Oxford Review of Education

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-228

  Hodgson, Ann ^a   Spours, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14+progression and transition; eco systems; local learning ecology; unemployment; young people

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876998592     PISSN: 03054985     EISSN: 14653915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2013.787923     Document Type: Article

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