There are two contrasting world views discernible in contemporary Australian government skill-formation literature: one which recognises the need for the development of underlying cognitive structures and interpersonal attributes for the workplace; and one which values the development of pre-specifi…
Background This study investigates the subsequent careers of the Senior House Officers (SHOs) who have passed through the Leicestershire SHO training scheme in public health medicine since its inception in 1981 and their views of the scheme.Methods Postal questionnaires were sent to past and current…
Source:Journal of Further and Higher Education
(1994)
This paper discusses the capacity of competency Standards of an integrated kind to incorporate the values and attitudes that are crucial to the effective performance of many occupations. It is argued that far from being a limitation, competency standards that conceptualise work in terms of key human…
Source:Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
(1993)
Recent developments in British higher education have included taking a close look at work-based learning, in particular its assessment (and its integration within academic programmes of study). However, two questions which are still continuously being asked are (a) to what extent are assessments of …
Since the establishment of the National Council for Vocational Qualfications (NCVQ) in 1986, the influence of the competence‐based approach, which underpins National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs), has spread beyond its original remit and now extends into schools and higher education. Competence s…
