Posts Tagged NVQ
GCSEs – or the poor-man’s equivalent
Posted by Claire Daley in Education on 21/08/2008
Poor quality ‘vocational’ or ‘vocationally related’ qualifications at GCSE are locking both low-income pupils and vocational education into second-class status.
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Pseudo ‘vocational’ qualifications being used to artificially reach A*-C GCSE targets
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Poorer pupils more likely to be pushed into vocational qualifications
Out of the thousands of pupils getting their GCSE results today, many will have been sold short with sub-standard vocational qualifications.
A new report from independent think-tank Civitas, School Improvement – or the ‘Equivalent’, shows how a blind focus on the A*-C benchmark, together with a failure to truly improve schools, has led to a scenario in which pupils are being encouraged to opt out of academic courses and into irrelevant so-called ‘vocational’ qualifications to boost national GCSE results.
