Sentences with phrase «many vocational qualifications»

Society as a whole must recognise that educationally and economically positive returns can be gained from the majority of vocational qualifications for young people.»

Moreover, vocational qualifications and apprenticeship standards need to be simplified and made more rigorous by independent national bodies, with a greater role for professional institutes.

«The CBI is also right to recognise the importance of parity of esteem between academic and vocational qualifications, something which the Secretary of State's proposed English Baccalaureate fails to do.»

And perhaps there is a perception that this government is «snobby» about things like vocational qualifications.

There is an alphabet soup of vocational qualifications on offer to young people.

As well as English and maths, it will measure how well pupils perform in at least three subjects from the English Baccalaureate — sciences, history, geography, languages — and Computer Science, and in three additional subjects, whether those are arts subjects, academic subjects or high quality vocational qualifications.

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

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 advanced.

«This proposal will lower the status of vocational qualifications at a time when employers are demanding that schools leavers have skills relevant for entering the workplace.

The IRTE and IMI will also work together to develop future irtec assessments, as well as new National Occupational Standards and vocational qualification frameworks for the commercial vehicle sector, to ensure that the evolving needs of employers are met.

«It is hard to see how the effective demolition of vocational qualifications at 16 will help the UK compete in the global marketplace.

This is particularly true for many (former) Labour supporters who have been left behind by the global economy and technological change — people who left school early and lack academic or vocational qualifications.

Nowadays, apprenticeships, skills and vocational qualifications are firmly on the political agenda.

The Department for Education (DfE) has launched new technical and vocational qualifications and stripped out thousands of poor - quality courses across a wide range of subjects, including construction, planning and the built environment.

The latest development is the commitment to raising standards for school leavers in English and maths, in response to the Wolf report that exposed fake vocational qualifications.

«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.

«Earning a Ph.D. is not a vocational qualification anymore,» says Metcalfe.

The fact that there has been a 2,300 per cent increase in the number of students taking vocational qualifications since 2004 should not solely be attributed to students and schools taking the easy option in maintaining their position in the league tables.

Bashaarat wrote: «Vocational qualifications are highly rated by universities and employers but are overlooked and misunderstood by independent schools and parents.

Ofqual aims to also regulate for the validity and safe delivery of national technical and vocational qualifications and Apprenticeships End - Point Assessments and regulate for the validity and safe delivery of all vocational and technical qualifications.

In an article for the Telegraph, Bashaarat claimed that although vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery».

e-Portfolios have been used widely in the vocational qualification market for the last 15 years and e-marking has been used in the last 10 years for education exams with all the unitary awarding bodies having adopted e-marking; a process where scripts are scanned in and then human - graded using simple work - flow or complex tools to manage the marking and quality checking of exam scripts.

«We could be setting up a very uncertain future for Australia, since many predicted growth areas for jobs require vocational qualifications,» she said.

Magnus Bashaarat, head of Milton Abbey Independent School, has called upon independent schools to give equal prominence to vocational qualifications as they do A-levels.

The report suggests that this could be because high attaining pupils were the first to be encouraged by their schools to enter the EBacc, whereas lower attaining pupils may have been steered away from vocational qualifications in the direction of the arts.

On opportunities for young people, Neil said: «This is an exciting and, often, daunting moment for young people and there is a fantastic array of options available that act as a springboard to a good career, from technical and vocational qualifications to academic routes.

«We pride ourselves on offering relevant and valuable vocational qualifications to ensure students have their best chance of walking into work after leaving us,» says Alan Jones, Curriculum Manager for Culture, Media & Sport at Darlington College.

«We pride ourselves on offering relevant and valuable vocational qualifications to ensure students have their best chance of walking into work after leaving us,» says Alan Jones

Both EBN schools offer a programme of study that encompasses GCSEs in sciences, English and maths, as well as the opportunity to work towards vocational qualifications in a range of other subjects.

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.

«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.

Davies background is in teaching and assessment in vocational qualifications, inspection and policy development.

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

The new vocational qualifications will be supported by funding worth # 60 million in 2018 - 19, rising to # 445 million in 2021 - 22, and eventually to «over # 500 million» a year, Tes has reported.

Undertaking a vocational qualification in school is linked to increased Year 12 completion rates for male Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students, according to a new report.

Exciting new resources were discussed as well as developments in both general and vocational qualifications highlighting what has changed and how the subject has evolved.

«In contrast, those with medium or low prior attainment may have initially been guided towards arts subjects, away from vocational qualifications,» it said.

In this video I have discussed how to make statistical inference from summary statistics using median shift; overall visible shift and informal confidence interval for medians for the weekly wage of people with degree and vocational qualification with a sample size of 30 of both groups

Chief executive of The Future Leaders Trust, Heath Monk, explained: «The decision to include only first entries, the removal of many vocational qualifications and the use of comparable outcomes to cap GCSE performance have created a situation where this year's results can not be compared to previous years.»

Technical and vocational qualifications approved for reporting in school performance tables.

Lists of technical and vocational qualifications approved for reporting in school performance tables.

Then there is the choice of three subjects from the English Baccalaureate (core academic subjects), and any other three from the DfE's approved list of qualifications - including vocational qualifications.

If attainment across a broader range of subjects are be counted, then arts subjects and vocational qualifications count for something in school accountability as well.

Committees whose members are nominated by competent ministries and trade union representatives carry out assessment and certification of national vocational qualifications.

Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, comments on the news that nine of AQA's vocational qualifications * have not been approved by Department for Education.

According to Magnus Bashaarat, vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, but many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways that BTECs open up for learners.

Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the field of assessment and delivery of vocational qualifications.

However, Mr Bashaarat said that most independent schools were a «dead end» for vocational qualifications.

He said that independent school heads were often fearful of introducing vocational qualifications as they could be perceived to be «dumbing down» their offering.

The DUP also call for «greater value being placed on vocational qualifications» in their manifesto.