Productivity, Education and Training: Facts and Policies in International Perspective (National Institute of Economic and Social Research Occasional Papers)
Cambridge University Press, 9/14/1995
EAN 9780521556675, ISBN10: 0521556678
Paperback, 156 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm
Language: English
The continuing development of automated production methods, combined with increasing competition from low-wage developing economies, is likely to reduce yet further the scope for the employment of low-skilled and inexperienced personnel in advanced economies. Higher standards of schooling and of vocational training are now widely recognised as essential. Based on visits by expert teams over the last ten years to matched samples of manufacturing plants, as well as to schools and vocational colleges in Britain and the European Continent, this book provides a realistic analysis of what needs to be done. The emphasis is on the need to expand, not the proportion of the workforce with university qualifications, but those with craft and vocational qualifications. The findings of this research have been influential in the development of government policies, and the author explains why these policies need to move even further, and in which directions they must next move.
Preface
1. General principles
2. Preparation for work in Britain and elsewhere
3. Productivity and its determinants
case studies
4. Education and productivity
5. From principles to practice
Notes
References
Index.