Sentences with phrase «level vocational qualifications»

«The staple offer for between a quarter and a third of the post-16 cohort is a diet of low - level vocational qualifications, most of which have little to no labour market value,» said the Wolf Report.

Not exact matches

The Tomlinson report published in October 2004 proposed a series of radical changes, including replacing GCSEs, A Levels and vocational qualifications with a single diploma available at four levels - entry, foundation, intermediate and advLevels and vocational qualifications with a single diploma available at four levels - entry, foundation, intermediate and advlevels - entry, foundation, intermediate and advanced.

«Pupils and teachers in 2014 are going to have to cope with new GCSEs, new A-levels, new vocational qualifications, new ways of tracking pupil progress once levels are abolished, on top of new curriculum content in all subjects,» the Association of School and College Leaders» Brian Lightman warned.

A new vocational NVQ level 2 Facilities Services qualification has been developed by the FM Sector Skills Council, Asset Skills, in consultation with MITIE and other employers and has been accredited as a national qualification.

The Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Health, Wellbeing and Physical Activity Leadership Tech Award combines Sports Leaders UK's extensive experience in school qualifications with Active IQ's experience in technical and vocational qualifications in the active leisure and learning sector.

The units do coinside with other BTEC qualifications, however, we use it here as a basic introduction to the kitchen, we deliver it to KS3 and Year 10 and often use the units of work to count towards their Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Vocational Studies (QCF).

«If few students take T - levels, they will just add another qualification to what government has said is a complicated system of vocational qualifications that it wants to simplify.

Young people need high - quality vocational qualifications, but the government's T - level plans are flawed according to the National Education Union (NEU).

According to Role of lower - level qualifications in Australia's vocational education and training system (ACER March 2015) enrolment patterns demonstrate the sensitivity of enrolments to changes in funding arrangements.

She also welcomed a recommendation that pupils receive the same Welsh Baccalaureate qualification at each level, regardless of whether they do academic or vocational subjects.

Pupils in year 12 and 13 will combine vocational courses with level 3 English and maths qualifications and employability skills.

While arguing that the system of vocational qualifications was «complex and opaque», Professor Wolf said that in practice «good levels of English and mathematics continue to be the most generally useful and valuable vocational skills on offer».

The ambition is for vocational exams to be given as much status as their academic counterparts - and there are plans for so - called «T - levels» for technical qualifications.

You have an academic or HBO (Higher Vocational Educational) qualification and intellectual level;

The Apprentice Learner Survey found that only 4.5 % of those who completed their apprenticeship scheme with a Level 4 vocational qualification in 2013 became unemployed within just six months.

The main ones for school leavers are an apprenticeship (started after GCSEs, A levels and / or vocational qualifications depending on the level) or a graduate scheme after university.

(I) Factors related to socioeconomic status: mother's (< 25, 25 — 29, 30 — 34, 35 +) and father's (< 30, 30 — 34, 35 +) age in years at birth of child; mother's and father's education at 9 months (National Vocational Qualification equivalent level 4 — 5 = university degree or equivalent, 3 = A levels or equivalent, 2 = grade C or higher in at least 4 General Certificate of Secondary Education qualifications at the end of compulsory schooling at age 16, 0 — 1 = less than this); occupational socioeconomic status at exposure, based on the last - known job of father or mother, whichever was higher (3 - class National Statistics Socio - economic Classification 1 = managerial / administrative / professional, 2 = intermediate, 3 = routine / manual); duration of breast - feeding (never, < 4 months, 4 + months); number of siblings of child in household at 9 months (none, 1, 2 +).