An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills

McQuaid, Ronald W; Lindsay, Colin; Johnson, Steve

Abstract

This paper presents a policy framework for describing the various factors that influence the success (or otherwise) of policy interventions designed to increase individual participation in learning and skills development.

Citation

McQuaid, R. W., Lindsay, C., & Johnson, S. An appetite for learning: increasing employee demand for skills development, Praxis report for UK Commission for Employment and Skills

• Working Paper Type: Discussion Paper
• Publication Date: Jan 30, 2010
• Deposit Date: Feb 11, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 11, 2011
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• ISBN: 978-1-906597-33-7
• Keywords: Employment skills; learning; education; labour market; Scotland; skills development; policy; intervention; job-related training; barriers
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4162
• Publisher URL: http://www.ukces.org.uk/upload/pdf/A5%20Appetite%20For%20Learning_1.pdf
• Contract Date: Feb 11, 2011