Author: Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder, and David Ashton
Pages: 24
Year: 2008
Source: Teaching and Learning Research Programme
Governments all over the world want their countries to have high-value, high-skill economies, and they realise that the first step towards this aim is to have a well-educated workforce. In the UK, an appreciation of the connection between economic success and education has led to widening participation in university, as well as lifelong learning, becoming new political priorities. But this Commentary from the Teaching and Learning Research Programme shows that this policy prescription may not be enough to avert a significant attack on skilled and professional employment in the UK.
Web link: http://www.tlrp.org/pub/documents/globalisationcomm.pdf
