British Journal of In-Service Education

A Staff Development Forum for the post-16 sector has recently been established. It will examine the need for a more coherent approach to staff training and professional development, including the introduction of ‘national standards’ in the form of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). This pape…

Political insistence on implementing higher level National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) and General Vocational Qualifications (GNVQs) currently dominates the ideological high ground for professional development for the post‐compulsory sector. There is a widespread and mistaken belief that GNVQs …

It is currently proposed that National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) should be developed to replace existing teacher education qualifications. NVQs are based on profiles of ‘competent’ practice drawn from behavioural analyses of job roles. This paper argues that, while they may help to generate o…