The purposes and validity of vocational qualifications
UK policy makers continue to focus on increasing skills as a means to economic and social prosperity and social mobility. Qualifications, the certificates and diplomas awarded following education, training or learning, stand as a proxy for skill and many policies aim to raise levels of qualifications held. Policy makers have focused much attention on vocational qualifications and history is replete with efforts to reform the vocational education and training (VET) system. Many studies have identified both strengths and weaknesses in the current system, most recently the Wolf Review (2011). Thi ... Show more
Authors: Stasz, Cathleen
Published: Cardiff, Wales, ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2011
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 30 p.
Access item: http://www.skope.ox.ac.uk/publications/purposes-and-validity-vocational-qualifications
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