Ph.D. Thesis

The rise and fall of the GNVQ:

A study of the changing relationship between young people and vocational qualifications at the start of the twenty-first century.

Open University School of Education December 2004

Thesis

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The rise and fall of the GNVQ:

A study of the changing relationship between young people and vocational qualifications at the start of the twenty-first century.

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