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Volume 30, Issue 3
1 March 1988
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Review Article| March 01 1988

LIMITATIONS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING

Graham Fowler
Graham Fowler
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6127
Print ISSN: 0040-0912
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Education + Training (1988) 30 (3): 12.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017410

The author, an education consultant, criticises the apparent superficiality of National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) provisions and calls for a return to the traditional apprenticeship system.

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