Discusses the development of a pilot Modern Apprenticeship initiative by Wakefield College, the Chemical Industry and the local Training Enterprise Council. Highlights the potential of the new initiative and explores the issues involved in ensuring effective partnership to commence a pilot scheme. C…
This paper outlines the emergence of the competence movement in British education and training, and summarises some salient perspectives from the growing body of research. In this general context it introduces the six papers brought together in this issue. These draw on current work in progress and …
The article provides a critical evaluation of functional analysis and its centrality in the competence philosophy underpinning reform of the UK’s national system of vocational qualifications. Definitions and meanings of competence are examined to locate functional analysis in its theoretical context…
Source:Community College Journal of Research and Practice
(1995)
Cooperative apprenticeships are a form of structured workplace training in which (a) employers, government agencies, labor unions, or other community or groups join with community‐technical colleges to provide formal educational programs in which structured work‐based experiences are integral credit…
This paper argues for the need to move beyond the ideological analysis of recent educational change. The current crisis of liberal education (both traditional and progressive) should not be seen exclusively in terms of New Right criticisms. The challenge presented by the National Council for Vocatio…
This paper offers a strategy for the development of successful work‐based learning programmes within higher education. It identifies and addresses the key challenges facing such development. Firstly, whether it is possible to develop a work‐based learning programme which provides an effective learni…
This paper presents an interim report on research into the influence of the European Communities (EC) on the emergence of competence-based models of vocational training in England and Wales between 1979 and 1987. Interactions between the development of the New Training Initiative objectives and the …
Source:British Journal of In-Service Education
(1995)
Political insistence on implementing higher level National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) and General Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) currently dominates the ideological high ground for professional development for the post‐compulsory sector. There is a widespread and mistaken belief that GNVQs …
