vocational education Flashcards
(12 cards)
1
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Which government introduced vocational education and when?
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conservative govts from 1979 to 1997
2
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What was the aim of vocational education?
A
- to meet the needs of industry
3
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What are some measures that were introduced?
A
- National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs)
- General National Vocational Qualifications (GNVGs)
- Modern apprenticeships
- new vocationalism
4
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What is meant by the national vocational qualifications?
A
- set up in 1986 to introduce standardised vocational qualifications for particular occupations
5
Q
By 1990, how many NVQs had been established?
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170
6
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What is meant by General National Vocational Qualifications?
A
- from 1995 - more general vocational qualifications covering wider areas e.g. leisure and tourism and health and social care
7
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Why were GNVQs introduced?
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- they were intended to provide a vocational alternative to traditional academic qualifications such as GCSEs and A-levels
8
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What is meant by modern apprenticeships?
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- from 1995 - programmes that combines training at work with part-time attendance at college, with the aim of achieving an NVQ qualification at Level 3 (=A-level)
9
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What is meant by new vocationalism?
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- used to describe new vocational training initiatives that were introduced in the 70s
- aimed initially at unemployed young people
10
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What is an example of new vocationalism?
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- the Youth Training Scheme (YTS) = a training scheme for school leavers, combining work experience with education
11
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How did Dan Finn criticise youth training schemes?
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- he argued that the main reason that many young people were unemployed was not a lack of appropriate work skills; it was a lack of jobs
12
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Why were youth training schemes developed, accordfing to Finn(1987)?
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- keep young unemployed people ‘off the streets’ in order to reduce the risk of crime and social unrest
- provide employers with a source of cheap labour at a time of declining profits
- reduce the embarrassingly high unemployment stats
