International Comparisons of Vocational Education and Training for Intermediate Skills

This chapter examines the delivery of intermediate level skills in Canada and Hong Kong with a view to establishing what lessons, if any, their experience may have for Britain. The concept of skill and its function in the learning process has received relatively little attention in the academic lite…

The comparative merits of vocational preparation in Britain and Germany have been widely discussed, to the overwhelming credit of Germany. The possibility of effective learning from the experiences of other countries is often questioned. A key ingredient in the success of German methods has been low…