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Vocational education and training in developing countries: has the World Bank got it right?

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Bennell, Paul
 SJ
Segerstrom, Jan
International Journal of Educational Development
Journal · Vol. 18 · Issue 4 · pp. 271-287
Abstract

The World Bank argues that vocational education and training in developing countries is best left to individuals, enterprises and private sector training institutions with government interventions kept to a minimum. This article argues that this policy prescription is seriously flawed both conceptually and in relation to the current VET policies adopted by governments in the advanced industrial economies as well as the high performing Asian economies.

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Vocational education education policy World bank training programme
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University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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