Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Vocational Qualifications Past and Present; Towards a Competence-based System: Contextualizing the Reform of Vocational Qualifications; 'Motherhood and Apple Pie': The Review of Vocational Qualifications in England and Wales 1985 1986; Ambiguity Resolved: The Implementation of NVQ Policy 1987 1989; Embedding the Reforms: NVQ and SVQ Policy 1990 1993; Coherence for 16- to 19-Year-Olds: The Origins and Development of GNVQ Policy.
Summary
Looks at the initial implementation of NVQs and GNVQs and at the considerable problems encountered. It also examines how the policies were sustained.
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