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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808369103321

Autore

Canning Mary <1944->

Titolo

Vocational education in the new EU member states : : enhancing labor market outcomes and fiscal efficiency / / Mary Canning, Martin Godfrey, Dorota Holzer-Zelazewska

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2007

ISBN

1-280-92876-X

9786610928767

0-8213-7158-4

Descrizione fisica

xii, 47 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm

Collana

World Bank working paper ; ; no. 116

Altri autori (Persone)

GodfreyMartin

Holzer-ZelazewskaDorota

Disciplina

370.1130947

Soggetti

Vocational education - Europe, Eastern

Vocational education - European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-47).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Executive Summary; 1. Introduction; List of Figures; 2. Background; List of Boxes; 3. Vocational Education and Fiscal Efficiency; List of Tables; 4. Some Propositions; 5. Some Principles for Further Reform; 6. Conclusion; References

Sommario/riassunto

Vocational education often is ignored during discussions of secondary education reform even though it accounts for between 25 percent and 79 percent of upper secondary enrollment in the former centrally-planned countries of the European Union. Based on information, data, and feedback from most of these countries, this paper develops a set of propositions about vocational education reform, not with a view to prescribing a detailed "one-size-fits-all" strategy, but rather it derives some principles that continued reform of vocational education could take into account, to the benefit of fiscal ef