Theme : labour_markets
- Study of training of exercise to music instructors (pdf) Finds that 'training' can lead to different outcomes - including disempowering the people involved if it is too reductive. Argues that training can either expands horizons and develops abilities or simply train to conform and follow scripts written by others. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- ESRC study: on vocational learning for low-achieving school leavers (pdf) Shows that acquiring vocational skills dramatically enhances chances of employment. But has much less of an effect on bringing wages up to the level of others with equivalent qualifications. from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Nick Pearce: Qualifications must be about learning something new Article by Nick Pearce: he argues (1) the failure of NVQs is to ignore learning in favour of accrediting what people already know, (2) we need to clarify what a 'demand-led' system actually means from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Graduate glut devalues price of a degree - Britain - Times Online Report on book by Phillip Brown and Anthony Hesketh arguing that we have an oversupply of graduates from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Work dries up for City boys lured to plumbing Interesting on the labour market. Lots of people became plumbers at the same time, forcing wages down from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Mick Fletcher: How to get people learning? Make qualifications a must He argues that we learn for two reasons: because we have to (certification) and because we see a benefit (i.e. low benfit at level 2, high benefit from a degree) from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
- Ewart Keep: government's skills strategy not the answer He argues its the shape of the labour market and the 'black box' of the company - not the stock of skills - that is the real barrier to moving to a knowledge intensive economy from : duncanoleary 13th July 2006
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