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Training packages: ticky-tacky boxes or a brave new workers' paradise?

Training packages have been fiercely resisted by many in the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Now they are here to stay, with 70 packages already endorsed, the challenge is for players at all levels in the VET system to work with them. This paper sets out the views of those working with training packages, from the academics who view them as ticky-tacky boxes constraining workers within narrowly defined fields of activity, through the bureaucrats and teachers who must, through gritted teeth or alternatively with pleasurable anticipation, implement them, to the 'enthusiastic campaigners' who have tried to win hearts and minds to the concept of a workers' paradise where anyone can gain a qualification through learning in his or her daily work. The paper identifies some of the basic underlying difficulties with training packages which, it is argued, stem from their being written for the workplace while their primary field of application is in educational institutions

Training packages have been fiercely resisted by many in the vocational education and training (VET) sector. Now they are ...  Show Full Abstract  

Authors: Smith, Erica
Conference name: International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training
Date: 2001
Geographic subjects: Oceania; Australia
Resource type: Conference
Subjects: Qualifications; Teaching and learning; Skills and knowledge;
Vocational education and training; Workforce development; Providers of education and training; Employment show more

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