ERIC Number: EJ485638
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0033-1538
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Vocational Education and Training: A Major Shift in World Bank Policy.
Foster, Phillip
Prospects, v22 n2 p149-55 1992
Comments on the World Bank's policy paper on vocational and technical education and training. Argues that past failures in establishing effective vocational and technical education were a result of not applying conventional neoclassical economic theory. Asserts that the World Bank's policy paper corrects this approach. (CFR)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Colonialism, Developing Nations, Economic Factors, Economic Progress, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries, Government Role, Government School Relationship, Human Resources, Justice, Labor Force Development, Postsecondary Education, Technical Education, Technology, Trade and Industrial Education, Vocational Education
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles
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Audience: Policymakers; Administrators; Practitioners
Language: English
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