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Case study of further education in England

Gavin Moodie, Leesa Wheelahan, Eric Lavigne and Lindsay Coppens

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Technical and vocational education and training
published 5 October 2018 updated 25 March 2022
written by:
Leesa Wheelahan
Gavin Moodie
Eric Lavigne

This report on further education in England was undertaken as part of a project funded by Education International to examine national case studies of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as a framework for social justice.

The study of England was one of the intensive studies and included a literature review, secondary analysis of published statistics, analysis of statistics collected by the University and College Union, interviews, and a number of country visits during one of which the investigators attended the Reimagining Further Education 2018 Conference.

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