Government, Markets and Vocational Qualifications
Government, Markets and Vocational Qualifications

Author: Peter Raggatt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1135701768

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During the 1980s and 1990s the elaboration of a reformed system of vocational qualifications was perhaps the most controversial of all the governments efforts to improve the provision of vocational education and training. Based largely on interviews with nearly 100 individuals who were closely involved with these reforms, this book provides an in-depth account of the origins, development and implementation of NVQ and GNVQ policies. In accounting for the progress of vocational qualifications policy three main areas are covered by the book. Firstly the authors look at the origins of the reformed system, then examine the initial implementation of the NVQ and GNVQ policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s and identify the considerable problems that accompanied the reform process. Thirdly, the book focuses on the ways in which the reformed policy was sustained during the 1990s.

General National Vocational Qualifications and Progression to Higher Education
General National Vocational Qualifications and Progression to Higher Education

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 9781853383564

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This bulletin describes the use of new qualifications, the General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVQ), which have been developed in Great Britain to qualify students for admittance to higher education through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). The first part of the bulletin discusses the suitability of GNVQs as a route from school or college to higher education and describes ways in which GNVQ programs might be enhanced for progression. The second part of the bulletin offers some advice and guidance on establishing agreements, supporting progression to higher education from GNVQs, between centers offering GNVQs, and universities and colleges of higher education. Examples are provided, and a checklist for establishing a GNVQ progression agreement is included. The findings in this bulletin are derived from research undertaken by UCAS and the National Council for Vocational Qualifications with higher education institutions and further education colleges. (KC)

GNVQs in Schools 1993/94
GNVQs in Schools 1993/94

Author: Inspectorate of Schools (England)

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 9780113500468

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This report reveals that students' responses to GNVQs have been overwhelmingly positive and that standards of achievement in the Advanced GNVQ work inspected were generally satisfactory or better. Standards of work at Intermediate GNVQ, however, were much more variable and the Inspectors recommend that work on further improving GNVQs needs to be taken forward quickly. The report identifies a number of issues for attention and action that needs to be taken by the NCVQ, BTEC, City and Guilds and the RSA Examinations Board.