High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A., 2001
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- Title
- High Skills: Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
- Author
- Phillip Brown; Andy Green; Hugh Lauder
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- As New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0199244200
- ISBN 13
- 9780199244201
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Today, economic success is seen as depending on the creation of a high-skilled workforce. This is the first book to offer a comparative examination of national routes to a 'high skill' economy.
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About the Author
Phillip Brown is a Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, UK. He trained as a teacher and youth worker before going to University College, Swansea in South Wales to study for a Ph.D. After working as a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he took a lectureship in Industrial Sociology at the University of Kent. Andy Green is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for the Wider Benefits of Learning at the Institute of Education. He previously taught in further education colleges in London and the USA and was Senior Lecturer in Education History and Policy at South Thames Polytechnic (1988-90) before joining the Institute of Education in 1990. He has acted as a consultant for a range of national and international bodies including the DFEE, the DTI, the National Skills Task Force, OECD, and CEDEFOP. Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education and Political Economy in the Education Department, University of Bath. He taught in London schools between 1970 and 1976 and was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand from 1979-90. From 1990-5, he was Professor of Education at Victoria University of Wellington.
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