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Product Description: For many years, British scientific and technical education has been regarded as inadequate and poor in comparison to competing countries. The deficiencies of the British education system and its failure to support and promote vocational education and training to create "human capital" in the labor force have been seen as a large factor in Britain's economic decline since the 1870s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years the study of the history of education has flourished and expanded. It has moved from being a specialist interest to one that concerns economic and social historians, who see that education has played a central part in the discussion of industrial development and the formation of the social structure...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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A history of British acting examines the changing social status of the actor, developments in training, the origins of actor's equity, and the social, financial, and public service aspects of an actor's life

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