On the Functions of a System of Vocational Qualifications

Autor/in	Lum, Gerard
Titel	On the Functions of a System of Vocational Qualifications
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 28 (2015) 2, S.187-206 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
DOI	10.1080/13639080.2014.1001336
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Qualifications; Job Skills; Minimum Competencies; Competency Based Education; Educational Policy; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Education Work Relationship; National Standards; Alternative Assessment; Educational Practices; Foreign Countries; Skill Obsolescence; Skill Analysis; Outcomes of Education; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsstufe; Produktive Fertigkeit; Fundamentum; Mindestwissen; Education; Competence; Competency; Competency-based education; Unterricht; Kompetenzorientierte Methode; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Bildungspraxis; Ausland; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg
Abstract	While acknowledging that a system of vocational qualifications might be perceived as having any number of possible purposes, this paper identifies three primary functions that any vocational qualification must fulfil by dint of being a vocational qualification. It is argued that current arrangements are unable to fulfil these essential functions due to certain intrinsic and irremediable conceptual difficulties with the National and Scottish Vocational Qualification (N/SVQ) system. The practical implications of this are illustrated through an account of little documented events in the 1990s when many of the UK's major companies found it necessary to abandon the UK's system of N/SVQs in favour of an alternative system precisely because of concerns that the N/SVQ did not fulfil the functions required of a vocational qualification. Of particular significance is an apparent inconsistency between the N/SVQ system and health and safety law: the so-called "competence" assessment procedures of the N/SVQ being seen to be methodological at odds with the legal requirements for competence. (As Provided).
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