Making Connections: Disseminating Research and Development for Vocational Education and Training - Softcover

White, Michael; Etc.; Christie, Ian; Johnson, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0853744416 ISBN 13: 9780853744412

Publisher: Policy Studies Institute, 1988

Synopsis

Vocational education and training (VET) is now one of the largest fields of research and development activity in the UK. Industry, government and the Manpower Services Commission devote considerable resources to activities ranging from developing new forms of open learning to researching the consequences of changing technology for skills. However, the large range of new development programmes and the wide variety of agencies involved in R & D has made it difficult to keep abreast of the changing scene. In this study, carried out on behalf of the Manpower Services Commission, the Policy Studies Institute puts forward recommendations for improving the dissemination of R & D on the subject of vocational education and training. These include more systematic efforts to get new developments incorporated into teacher training, major efforts to increase and systematize the use of computer databases and the setting up of new specialist units - including a new National Centre for Information Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Studies Institute
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0853744416
• ISBN 13: 9780853744412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108