Sentences with phrase «of vocational qualifications»

The government is to crack down on school league table tricks by cutting the value of vocational qualifications in performance measures.

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

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

«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.

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

«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.

«The Government should stop restricting the range of vocational qualifications in performance tables and develop with teachers, employers and Awarding Bodies a strong system of Vocational Education that gives young people the opportunity to develop practical skills in real life contexts.

It supports collaboration between education and employers to broaden and improve the quality of opportunities available to young people to equip them with skills they need for the current and anticipated job market, including an expansion of vocational qualifications.

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

The shake - up comes after last year's review of vocational qualifications for the government by Prof Alison Wolf, which suggested schools had been tempted to teach qualifications that attract the most points in school performance tables.

The Department for Education (DfE) changed its methodology last year for the calculation of key stage 4 performance measure data, to factor in the removal of vocational qualifications from the league tables and to only count a pupil's first entry to an exam.

«They will lead to a boost in the quality of vocational qualifications being taken and will enhance the opportunities for young people to progress.»

However, the suggestion that «school and college performance measures;» be used to boost the standing of vocational qualifications is not clear and must be carefully calibrated if it is to have the impact intended.

Many accrediting bodies offer different levels of vocational qualification suitable for school leavers, graduates and experienced professionals.

«The NASUWT welcomes any efforts to raise the status of vocational qualifications and to extend opportunities for the 50 % or so of young people who do not go to university».

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».