Publisher's Synopsis
This book is a brief, readable account of the origins and development of the new framework of National Vocational Qualifications in relation to the new system of mass Further and Higher Education. Written in part by the Staff Reporter of the Times Higher Education Supplement, it provides a detailed account of the various stages through which the NVQs and GNVQs have gone and the political influences which have shaped their present form. With a dramatic increase of students with Advanced GNVQs waiting for admission to Universities, the introduction is meant to situate the NVQs and GNVQs within a framework of a wider theoretical understanding and to question the role of Universities in the New Millennium. - - It will appeal to a wide variety of readers including academics and administrators, specialists in education and training, students and teachers at all levels of Further and Higher Education. It will also appeal to readers abroad particularly in the USA, Australia and New Zealand who are watching with interest this uniquely British, but highly controversial, experiment.
