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Teaching Mathematics and its Applications 1997 16(4):207-212; doi:10.1093/teamat/16.4.207
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Mathematics for All

The Teaching of Post-Compulsory Students in International Context

ALISON WOLF

Alison Wolf is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, and a member of its Mathematical Sciences group. Her major interests are in mathematics education for non-specialists in further and tertiary education, and in comparative education. She recently completed a major longitudinal review of the development of GNVQs, and an analysis of convergence and divergence in EU education and training systems

Address for correspondence: Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way London WC1H OAL, UK. (a.wolf{at}ioe.ac.uk)
This paper reviews international practice in mathematics education for post-compulsory students. It identifies the unique nature of British practices with respect to both academic and vocational track students. It then draws on the general literature on economic change and labour productivity to evaluate the current British approach, and concludes that this is unlikely to produce the standards of mathematics attainment required by current economic change.


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