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Over the period 1980–1995 there emerged, in the UK, a strong cross-party consensus that this was an ‘undertrained’ society, and that, in order to secure a high-productivity economy, the volume and scale of training undertaken must be increased. This rather undifferentiated commitment, expressed in ‘National Training Targets’ and the establishment of new and large-scale government programs, rather overshadowed questions of who should actually pay for the training. ‘More of everything’ implied more spending by government and more spending by employers and more spending by the individual. No very precise efforts were made to discuss precisely how the division should be made or could be expected to fall.
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Wolf, A. (1998). Competence Based Assessment. Does it shift the demarcation lines?. In: Nijhof, W.J., Streumer, J.N. (eds) Key Qualifications in Work and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5204-4_13
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