Vocational education and training for development: A policy...
Publication year: 2012

The current decade has seen a significant return of interest in vocational education and training (VET) amongst the international policy community. Th...

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Reimagining the purpose of VET: Expanding the capability to...
Publication year: 2012

This paper applies the capabilities approach to the broader debate of the role of vocational education and training (VET) in poverty alleviation. The...

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Beyond aid effectiveness: The development of the South Afric...
Publication year: 2010

The current dominant account of aid to education focuses on schooling and official development assistance and talks in terms of policy work, donor har...

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The role of education in development: An educationalist's re...
Publication year: 2010

This paper delves beneath the widespread belief that education (often repackaged as human capital) is important in development to consider the role th...

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Vocational education and training for sustainability in Sout...
Publication year: 2009

This paper considers the role that skills development has in the sustainability of the South African political-economic project. It explores some of t...

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FET college lecturers: The 'devolving' link in the South Afr...
Publication year: 2008

National attention on the role of skills development has focused on the role of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in providing intermed...

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The marketing of public FET colleges in South Africa: Issues...
Publication year: 2008

This paper considers the rising trend of introducing marketing practices into public education through the lens of South African further education...

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Beyond the basics: Educating and training out of poverty
Publication year: 2007

The International Journal of Educational Development exists to debate issues about the relationship between education and development. One of the pere...

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