OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs
OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 926408746X

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An OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives.

Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning
Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning

Author: Carl Patton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-08-26

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1317350006

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Updated in its 3rd edition, Basic Methods of Policy Analysis and Planning presents quickly applied methods for analyzing and resolving planning and policy issues at state, regional, and urban levels. Divided into two parts, Methods which presents quick methods in nine chapters and is organized around the steps in the policy analysis process, and Cases which presents seven policy cases, ranging in degree of complexity, the text provides readers with the resources they need for effective policy planning and analysis. Quantitative and qualitative methods are systematically combined to address policy dilemmas and urban planning problems. Readers and analysts utilizing this text gain comprehensive skills and background needed to impact public policy.

Education Policy Analysis 2003
Education Policy Analysis 2003

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2003-11-20

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 9264104577

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Provides state-of-the-art reviews of policy issues and developments in the ways that countries define students with disabilities, difficulties and disadvantages; approaches to career guidance; changes underway in higher education; and policy options for making investments in lifelong learning pays.

The Job Training Charade
The Job Training Charade

Author: Gordon Lafer

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780801489518

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A comprehensive critique showing that training has been a near-total failure. Examines the economic assumptions and track record of training policy, and provides a political analysis of why job training has remained so popular despite widespread evidence of its failure. [book jacket].

Cases in Public Policy Analysis
Cases in Public Policy Analysis

Author: George M. Guess

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780878407682

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This edition contains updated materials involving actual complex policy issues, such as cigarette smoking regulations, air pollution control, public transit financing, HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, and prison overcrowding.