1st Edition

Change And Intervention Vocational Education And Training

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    244 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1991. The constant changes in both vocational education and training (VET) policy and practice since the early 1970s have been well documented. Some of these changes are a direct result of government intervention in education and training policy, for example TVEI, YTS and the introduction of a competency-based framework for qualifications. This volume brings together some key players and key policies, which are part of the complex structure and presents them for public scrutiny. The editors do not set out to pursue one ideological argument but rather to present a series of different perspectives which, taken together, reveal the massive scale of change and intervention shaping the country's VET infrastructure.

    Chapter 1 Developing Standards, Graham Debling; Chapter 2 Competence and Higher Education, John Burke; Chapter 3 Serving the Needs of Industry?, Richard Guy; Chapter 4 Quality Assurance and NVQs, Peter Raggatt; Chapter 5 Meeting the Needs of a ‘Global Society’, Lorna Unwin; Chapter 6 Cooperation, Coordination and Quality in Employer and Education Partnerships, Ian McNay; Chapter 7 Winners and Losers, Richard Edwards; Chapter 8 Out of the Adult Hut, John Field; Chapter 9 Conditions for Learner Autonomy at a Distance, Lewis Elton; Chapter 10 Changes in Funding, Keith Cook, Geoff Crook; Chapter 11 NVQs and the Man-Made Fibres Industry, Lorna Unwin; Chapter 12 Improvements in Workforce Qualifications, Hilary Steedman;

    Biography

    Peter Raggatt