Skills for Human Development brings social justice to the forefront of the discussion of skills development and offers a better way of bringing together skills and development than the human capital-inspired orthodoxy.
"Skills for human development makes a valuable contribution to tertiary education theory and method. Policymakers would probably benefit from further analysis to consider the implications for their own practice, which offer many opportunities to readers to build on Powell and McGrath's work." - Gavin Moodie, Journal of Higher Education and Policy Management