.... National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) were designed to provide assessment of ability for an individual without that individual necessarily having followed a curriculum or programme of instruction. This is achieved by aligning performance not with the curriculum but with the different functions...

... the success or otherwise of particular NVQs . In Scotland the position is even more serious as no data are published on the performance of SVQs at framework or award level. Competences National Vocational Qualifications Tertiary education The last five years have seen substantial growth...

...Graham Cheetham; Geoff Chivers Describes a model of professional competence which attempts to bring together a number of apparently disparate views of competence, including the “outcomes” approach, a key feature of UK National Vocational Qualifications, and the “reflective practitioner” approach...

...J.R. Shackleton; S. Walsh Outlines the development of the UK′s system of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs), discussing the rationale for NVQs and considering some of the criticisms of these qualifications made by industrialists,economists and educators. Goes on to offer some new evidence...

... on to argue that there could be a different set of training dynamics in many small firms. Poses a culture of rational and incremental change in training activity in large firms against a more visionary approach in small firms to explain some curious evidence on the uptake of National Vocational Qualifications...

... Competences Management development National Vocational Qualifications Performance levels Trainers Training techniques Vocational training In management and organizational literature, as well as in practice,increasing attention has been paid to the importance of human resources...

... is intended to stimulate critical debate within the education and training professions. The series will end with recommendations on a way forward within the established NCVQ framework. Competences Education Qualifications Training National vocational qualifications Organizational change COMPETENCE...