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Technical secondary students in Kenya: Origins, achievement and destinations

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  1. Programme of Research on Education, Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities, (Norway)

    Jon Lauglo (Director of Research)

  2. Department of International and Comparative Education, University of London Institute of Education, London, UK

    Jon Lauglo (Director of Research)

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Working within a comparative perspective, has published on pre-vocational education and vocational training, the teaching profession, distribution of authority in education systems and university policy.

This article is the result of a joint project with Anders Närman at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is based on a paper presented at the 1988 conference in Norway of the Nordic Association for the Study of Education in Developing Countries.

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Lauglo, J. Technical secondary students in Kenya: Origins, achievement and destinations. Prospects 19, 407–426 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02207634

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