GNVQ unlike NVQs did not attempt to develop directly occupational competence but rather to achieve a foundation of skills, knowledge and understanding that would underpin a range of occupations. The intention together with the work place NVQs would become the primary provision for vocational education and training. During the NCVQ worked with the major vocational awarding bodies e.
The frameworks allowed considerable flexibility of delivery as the specifications did not pre-define a syllabus or learning programme but only the expected outcomes. There was no fixed time period for the award as individual differences between students was recognised and this as was particularly helpful to adult learners who could study part-time at a college whilst working and also undertake open or private study. A number of commentators observed that GNVQ allowed the students to take greater responsibility for their own learning.
Also the students were required to achieve three core skills. The 12 vocational units comprised eight mandatory units in a chosen vocational area plus four optional units chosen from a given list which extended the depth of the mandatory units and could involve more specialised applications. Core skills and additional units were also available at this level.
They are available across a wide range of industries, just like our qualifications. These highly-practical qualifications were developed for learners wishing to specialise in a technical occupation or occupational group.
They equip learners with specialist knowledge and skills, enabling direct progression routes to employment, apprenticeships, further study and higher education. Our gold-standard programme of study for year-olds. TechBac combines both the technical skills and knowledge for a learner's chosen occupation alongside the 'soft' skills and competencies demanded by employers.
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Learners like them because they can do them without having to give up work. Employers like them because they demonstrate an individual's true skill. Our range of International Vocational Qualifications IVQs are designed to measure the knowledge and practical skills of learners and are designed specifically for the international marketplace. Nor was she convinced that the qualifications were attracting more young people down the vocational route overall.
Although they had been endorsed as one of the three key pathways for young people in Sir Ron Dearing's review of to education, many schools and young people had remained loyal to long- standing qualifications such as the BTEC National Diplomas, some of which cover similar areas of study.
The most popular areas of study reflect a similar devotion to potential careers in business and the service industries, such as health and tourism. Far from simplifying the qualifications jungle, GNVQs seem simply to have added to it without shifting the direction of young people's interests at all. Far from solving the problems inherent in A-levels, where students have been drifting away from science for years, the new so-called vocational A-levels seem merely to have replicated them.
The only fear about the new courses which does not seem to have been fulfilled is that the universities would not regard them as an adequate preparation for a degree course.
An advanced GNVQ is intended to be the equivalent of two A-levels, and in some schools and colleges students are taking the two qualifications alongside each other. The Joint Council's statistics show that around three- quarters of students completing an advanced course apply to university, and of those about two-thirds are successful.
The nature of the qualification means that most applicants apply for vocational degree courses, which are concentrated mainly in the new universities, the former polytechnics. If the GNVQs were intended to keep young people in education, they seem to have succeeded. Level 3 Covers more complex work and will help you develop your supervisory skills.
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