INSIDE A CASE OF NORTH-SOUTH COLLABORATION IN POLICY RESEARCH ABOUT TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING
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This article gives an insider account of the author’s involvement in a protracted educational research partnership with The Gambia, in the context of North-South Collaboration and with the policy-research interface in education at issue. The article ends with the author reflecting on the future for North-South Collaborative educational research in Developing Countries in the light of global trends in the formulation of educational policy.
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