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Direct linkYoung, Michael – Journal of Education and Work, 2011
National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) were launched in the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland) in 1987 as a framework for rationalising what was described at the time as the "jungle" of existing vocational qualifications. They were never intended to be the basis for a comprehensive NQF for all qualifications; however, successive…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, National Standards
Spours, Ken; Young, Michael – British Journal of Education and Work, 1996
Analyzes the recommendations of the Dearing "Review of Qualifications for 16-19 Year Olds" in Britain. Makes suggestions for a unified qualifications system and places reform within a wider context, including a possible change in government. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Change, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries
Young, Michael – Education with Production, 1993
Discusses the feasibility of improving a low-performance, divided system of vocational education such as that found in the United Kingdom. Suggests that there are parallels with a distinction between the economic policies of "expanding to distribute" and "distributing to expand," recognizing that qualifications will not be…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Improvement, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries
