National Vocational Qualifications: the candidates? experience

The Effectiveness of National Vocational Qualifications in Residential and Nursing Homes

The impact of the Government’s modernisation agenda on the workforce in residential and nursing homes has particular significance for the training of care staff, directly and indirectly. Major forces for reform were Modernising the Social Care Workforce and the National Minimum Standards for Care Homes for Older People (NMS), which require providers to ensure that 50% of their staff are trained...

National Vocational Qualifications in the United Kingdom: Their origins and legacy

The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain

Individual copy price: £5 The Centre for the Economics of Education is an independent research centre funded by the Department of Education and Employment. The view expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Education and Employment. All errors and omissions remain the authors. Executive Summary Previous work looking at the retu...

Beyond the contextual: the importance of theoretical knowledge in vocational qualifications & the implications for work’

The Impact of Vocational Qualifications on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-Achieving School-Leavers

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low achievement on labour force status is estimated. The main focus of the paper is then to investigate to what extent unqualified school leavers can improve their labour market status...