Competency Based Education And Training

Abstract

This book looks at the background to competency based education and training, the issues bound up in the concept of competence, the response of the National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ), the Training Agency and the Further Education Unit (FEU), and the implications for, and the response of, further education in the UK. The chapters are as follows: Introduction / John Burke; Competence based education and training: background and origins / Eric Tuxworth; Competence and standards / Bob Mansfield; Can competence and knowledge mix? / Alison Wolf; The definition of standards and their assessment / Lindsay Mitchell; The emerging model of vocational education and training / Gilbert Jessup; The Employment Department/Training Agency Standards Programme and NVQs: implications for education / Graham Debling; Curriculum implications / Geoff Stanton; An achievement-led college / Jenny Shackleton; The implementation of NVQs / John Burke; Towards the implementation of competence based curricula in colleges of FE / Ian Haffenden and Alan Brown; Initial teacher training and the NCVQ model / Michael Eraut; Emerging issues: the response of HE to competency based approaches / Tim Oates.

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