| Government, Markets and Vocational Qualifications: An Anatomy of Policy Contributor(s): Raggatt, Peter (Author), Williams, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0750709170 ISBN-13: 9780750709170 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $56.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: A sustained examination of the politics and decision-making surrounding the origins, development and maintenance of Britain's main policy addressing international competitiveness. The Vocational Education and Training (VET) policy has not transformed Britain's economic competitiveness, as intended. This examination of VET sheds much needed light on factors of policy development and implementation which will benefit ministers, officials and the business community in developing future policies, balancing the demands of short term imperatives and long-term objectives, and catering for internal workings and accountabilities amongst quangos and executive agencies. A textbook for postgraduate studies in education, as well as educational policymakers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Dewey: 379.121 |
| LCCN: 99028029 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the 1980s and 1990s the elaboration of a reformed system of vocational qualifications was perhaps the most controversial of all the governments efforts to improve the provision of vocational education and training. Based largely on interviews with nearly 100 individuals who were closely involved with these reforms, this book provides an in-depth account of the origins, development and implementation of NVQ and GNVQ policies. In accounting for the progress of vocational qualifications policy three main areas are covered by the book. Firstly the authors look at the origins of the reformed system, then examine the initial implementation of the NVQ and GNVQ policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s and identify the considerable problems that accompanied the reform process. Thirdly, the book focuses on the ways in which the reformed policy was sustained during the 1990s. |