How Europe Would See the New British Initiative for Standardising Vocational Qualifications

S.J. Prais

National Institute Economic Review, 1989, vol. 129, 52-54

Abstract: Among the many recent endeavours of HM Government to improve vocational training is the creation of a body to bring coherence into Britain's so-called ‘jungle’ of vocational qualifications, spawned over the decades and centuries by a myriad of examining and award-granting organisations issuing qualifications at a variety of uncoordinated levels. For those familiar with the qualification systems of Continental Europe (hereafter ‘Europe’, for short), some doubts are nevertheless raised by the principles on which the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) proposes to work; these doubts relate, not to details which can safely be left to technical experts for due resolution, but to matters of fundamental principle deserving wider consideration at the outset. We focus here on three issues: co-ordination of levels of qualification with Europe; the balance of theory and practice in qualifying tests; and the potentially self-defeating effects of introducing too low an initial level of validated qualification.

Date: 1989
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