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Transitioning Vocational Education and Training in Africa

A Social Skills Ecosystem Perspective

By Simon McGrath, George Openjuru Ladaah, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Stephanie Allais, Jacques Zeelen, Volker Wedekind, Presha Ramsarup, David Monk, Luke Metelerkamp, Jo-Anna Russon, Bonaventure Kyaligonja, Glen Robbins, Scovia Adrupio, David Ocan, Kenneth Nyeko, Adoye Primo, Palesa Molebatsi, Themba Tshabalala, Sidney Muhangi and Maxwell Openjuru

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book takes an expansive view of vocational education and training. Drawing on case studies across rural and urban Uganda and South Africa, the book offers a new way of seeing this through an exploration of the multiple ways in which people learn to have better livelihoods.

Bristol Uni Press

Food Banks in Schools and Nurseries

The Education Sector’s Responses to the Cost-of-Living Crisis

By Alice Bradbury and Sharon Vince

Drawing on case studies of 12 primary schools and early years settings across England, this book explores how food banks operate for families facing financial insecurity operate and how they affect children’s participation and wellbeing. It explores the major policy decisions that needs to be made to support families.

Policy Press
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Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe

Navigating between Knowledge and Economy

Edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Siyka Kovacheva and Xavier Rambla

This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues that are essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.

Policy Press

Women in Supramolecular Chemistry

Collectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM

By Jennifer Leigh, Jennifer Hiscock, Anna McConnell, Cally Haynes, Claudia Caltagirone, Marion Kieffer, Emily Draper, Anna Slater, Larissa K.S. von Krbek, Kristin Hutchins, Davita Watkins and Nathalie Busschaert

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on research carried out by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry network, this book sets out the extent to which women working in STEM face inequality and discrimination. It offers a path forward to inclusivity and diversity.

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