Enhancing 'skills for life'?: Workplace learning and adult basic skills

Tracking Adult Literacy and Numeracy Skills: Findings from Longitudinal Research

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 242-260

  Evans, Karen ^a   Waite, Edmund ^a   Admasachew, Lul ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84909331610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203888889     Document Type: Chapter

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