This report is developed from research originally conducted for CEDEFOP by the Centre for Research on Wider Benefits of Learning (WBL) in 2002 for its periodic Research Report on vocational education and training. This report benefits from additional work carried out within WBL in the intervening period which extends the literature under review and further clarifies the theoretical arguments derived from the analysis of this literature. The report, however, maintains its original focus on the social benefits of learning at the societal level and, as appropriate to this, uses the methods of cross-national comparative analysis. The original material has been substantially reorganised and re-written to present here a concise review and theoretical analysis of the international comparative evidence on social benefits at the societal level. The study explores the differences between individual level and societal approaches to the question of social benefits and highlights the areas where ad ...   read more ...

This report is developed from research originally conducted for CEDEFOP by the Centre for Research on Wider Benefits of Learning (WBL) in 2002 for its periodic Research Report on vocational education and training. This report benefits from additional work carried out within WBL in the intervening period which extends the literature under review and further clarifies the theoretical arguments derived from the analysis of this literature. The report, however, maintains its original focus on the social benefits of learning at the societal level and, as appropriate to this, uses the methods of cross-national comparative analysis. The original material has been substantially reorganised and re-written to present here a concise review and theoretical analysis of the international comparative evidence on social benefits at the societal level. The study explores the differences between individual level and societal approaches to the question of social benefits and highlights the areas where adopting the comparative societal approach can yield additional insights for theory and policy. read less ...

The macro-social benefits of education, training and skills in comparative perspective / John Preston and Andy Green. 

The macro-social benefits of education, training and skills in comparative perspective / John Preston and Andy Green. read less ...

(c) John Preston and Andy Green 

(c) John Preston and Andy Green read less ...