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Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Education Policy, 2005
This paper explores the changing roles and purposes of vocational education for young people in what has been called a 'knowledge' society, using the General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) as an example. This qualification dominated the broad, vocationally-related route within the English qualifications system throughout the 1990s. The…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Young Adults, Adult Education, Vocational Education