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Peer reviewedFuller, Alison; Unwin, Lorna – Journal of Education Policy, 1999
The UK's National Learning Targets for Education and Training, embracing 11- to 21-year-olds, adults, and employers, promote a credentialist approach to economic and social development. This article shows how the steel industry measures up. Using qualifications-based targets as a proxy for adult workforce capability is misguided. (Contains 40…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Credentials, Economic Development
