Flexibility and lifelong learning: Policy, discourse and politics

Flexibility and Lifelong Learning: Policy, Discourse and Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-170

  Nicoll, Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203969441     Document Type: Book

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