| Will skills save us? Rethinking the relationships between vocational education, skills development policies, and social policy in South Africa S Allais International Journal of Educational Development 32 (5), 632-642, 2012 | 290 | 2012 |
| Selling out education: National qualifications frameworks and the neglect of knowledge S Allais Springer, 2014 | 251 | 2014 |
| The implementation and impact of National Qualifications Frameworks: Report of a study in 16 countries S Allais ILO, 2010 | 249 | 2010 |
| The National Qualifications Framework in South Africa: a democratic project trapped in a neo-liberal paradigm? SM Allais Journal of education and work 16 (3), 305-323, 2003 | 179 | 2003 |
| ‘Economics imperialism’, education policy and educational theory S Allais Journal of Education Policy 27 (2), 253-274, 2012 | 160 | 2012 |
| Education service delivery: The disastrous case of outcomes-based qualifications frameworks SM Allais Progress in Development Studies 7 (1), 65-78, 2007 | 122 | 2007 |
| Why the South African NQF Failed: lessons for countries wanting to introduce national qualifications frameworks SM Allais European Journal of Education 42 (4), 523-547, 2007 | 121 | 2007 |
| Vocational education and training for African development: a literature review S McGrath, P Ramsarup, J Zeelen, V Wedekind, S Allais, H Lotz-Sisitka, ... Journal of Vocational Education & Training 72 (4), 465-487, 2020 | 106 | 2020 |
| The rise and fall of the NQF: A critical analysis of the South African National Qualifications Framework S Allais PhD diss., University of the Witwatersrand, 2007 | 103 | 2007 |
| Claims vs. practicalities: lessons about using learning outcomes S Allais Journal of Education and Work 25 (3), 331-354, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| A critical perspective on large class teaching: the political economy of massification and the sociology of knowledge S Allais Higher Education 67, 721-734, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| Quality assurance in education SM Allais Centre for Education Policy Development, 2009 | 88 | 2009 |
| The impact and implementation of national qualifications frameworks: a comparison of 16 countries SM Allais Journal of education and work 24 (3-4), 233-258, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Towards measuring the economic value of higher education: Lessons from South Africa S Allais Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education, 147-163, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |
| Learning from the first qualifications frameworks S Allais, D Raffe, R Strathdee, L Wheelahan, M Young International Labour Organization, 2009 | 65 | 2009 |
| Researching NQFs: some conceptual issues S Allais, D Raffe, M Young International Labour Organization, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Problems with qualification reform in senior secondary education in South Africa S Allais, M Young, J Gamble Knowledge, curriculum and qualifications for South African further education …, 2006 | 57 | 2006 |
| The changing faces of the South African national qualifications framework SM Allais Journal of education and work 24 (3-4), 343-358, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| What are skills? Reflections on policy in South Africa in the light of international debates S Allais, EP Unit Politics 28 (30), 1-21, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| Skills for industrialisation in sub-Saharan African countries: why is systemic reform of technical and vocational systems so persistently unsuccessful? S Allais Journal of Vocational Education & Training 74 (3), 475-493, 2022 | 45 | 2022 |
