Source:Journal of International Development
(1993)
Non‐governmental organization (NGO) income generation programmes for Afghan refugees in Pakistan comprise waged employment such as public works and production of relief goods, provision of income‐earning ‘starters’ such as seeds and poultry, microenterprise promotion, production and marketing scheme…
Malawi's literacy rate for people aged 15 years and above is estimated at 48,3 per cent. The high level of illiteracy impedes the exchange of information and so also socio-economic development. The government of Malawi launched the functional literacy programme so that those without formal education…
Abstract: Patterns of smoking in Western Australia since 1974 were examined using four data sets. Consistency between sets of data was high for adults in the various categories of smoker status. Having established consistency, the patterns revealed by the surveys conducted by the Health Department o…
This paper explores the emerging settlement surrounding vocational education and training in England in the 1990s. It describes and then considers the dangers in the post‐Fordist position that argues a high skills/high trust economy/society offers emancipatory possibilities. Insufficient attention i…
The recent Government White Paper on further education (now part of the Further and Higher Education Act) made a host of proposals designed to address some urgent issues in the post-compulsory sector, including the need to increase the post-16 participation rate and to upgrade generally vocational e…
The rapid expansion of competence-based education (CBE) through the work of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) has now, thanks to generous public funding and official endorsement by the Department for Education, penetrated the theory and practice of professional studies in tea…
Source:British Journal of Sociology of Education
(1993)
It argues the notion of settlement needs to be developed to incorporate concepts of race and gender. It suggests a settlement is developing amongst the major political parties and other constituents who have a stake in post-compulsory education and training. These constituents share a common analysi…
This article reports a study of students' experiences in a community college vocational program in banking and finance and the jobs the students got and lost in the data center of a bank. The study is situated in current concerns about the presumed literacy problems of North American workers and the…
