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Technical education: A dead end or adapting to change?

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  1. David Atchoarena
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Original language: French

David Atchoarena (Saint Lucia) Programme Specialist at the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), UNESCO, Paris. Economist and author of several works on the financing of technical education and vocational training, and editor of the IIEP publicationL'éducation permanente dans un groupe de pays industrialisés sélectionnés [Continuing education in a selected group of industrialized countries] (1995).

Françoise Caillods (France) Economist and co-ordinator of decentralized programmes at the IIEP. Director of its programme on policies and strategies in secondary education. She has recently published a book entitledScience education and development: planning and policy issues (1997). She has also published numerous works on technical education and vocational training, and on trends in educational planning and regional schools' requirements.

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Atchoarena, D., Caillods, F. Technical education: A dead end or adapting to change?. Prospects 29, 67–87 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736826

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