UK NVQs: Integrating, Industrial and Academic Viewpoints - (August 2003)

Vocational education within the UK has been encapsulated within a national framework of vocational qualifications, commonly referred to by the acronym NVQ's. The spectrum of these awards is intended to cover the pre-16 year old educational age group to those entering under-graduate and post-graduate programmes of study. Among other reasons, NVQ's have brought together under one overall authority, namely the National Qualifications Authority, the hitherto disparate awarding bodies for the training of occupation specific skills (e.g. City and Guilds and RSA). At the same time, they have brought into a coherent focus the vocational training requirements of industry, and the needs of a competitive skills-based economy.

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