The knowledge economy and new vocationalism: international and national challenges for mass higher education

This keynote address was delivered at the opening session of the international seminar ‘Vocational content in mass higher education?: responses to the challenges of the labour market and the workplace’, held in Bonn, 8-10 September 2005. This seminar was jointly organised by the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre and the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES), in cooperation with the Centre for Comparative and International Education, University of Oxford. It is part of a larger joint project between UNESCO-CEPES and the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre which aims to inve ... Show more

Authors: Johnson, David

Corporate authors: International Seminar on Vocational Content in Mass Higher Education?: Responses to the Challenges of the Labour Market and the Workplace

Published: Bonn, Germany, UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2005

Resource type: Conference paper

Physical description: 8 p.

Access item: http://p19035.typo3server.info/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs/bulletin/Supplement-08-e.pdf

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Subjects: Vocational education and trainingHigher educationTeaching and learningSkills and knowledgeEconomics

Keywords: CurriculumEducation and training needsSkill needsKnowledge societyKnowledge economy

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