Education and training in the New Europe: economic and political contexts: Martin Mclean

Cross-national comparisons may refine general concepts by testing against a wide range of examples or they may explore abiding variations between national cultures. Too frequently they are driven by selective enthusiasm for foreign practices. Comparative studies of vocational education in Britain since the early 1980s (Prais, 1981; NEDO/MSC, 1984) have outgrown uncritical borrowing. They have still to reach their full maturity.