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Vocational education and training

A major shift in World Bank policy

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    Philip Foster

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Holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, where he was a faculty member from 1959 to 1978 and Director of its Comparative Education Center from 1973 to 1978. He was Professor of Education and Head of School at Macquarie University (Australia) from 1978 to 1981. In the succeeding decade he was Professor of Education and Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany and is now Professor Emeritus.

His principal research and writing has focused on problems of education and development with particular reference to sub-Saharan Africa. Besides numerous contributions to professional journals his major works include: Education and Social Change in Ghana (1965); The Fortunate Few (1966) with Rémi Clignet; Ghana and the Ivory Coast: Perspectives on Modernization(1971) with Aristide Zolberg; and Education and Rural Development(1973) with James R. Sheffield.

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Foster, P. Vocational education and training. Prospects 22, 149–155 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195542

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