The Wolf Report: Review of vocational education
| Title | The Wolf Report: Review of vocational education |
| Author(s) | Alison Wolf |
| Organisation | King’s College, London |
| Date | March 2011 |
| No. of pages | 197 |
| Key words | vocational education in schools; 14-19; 16-19; vocational qualifications; progression; apprenticeships; basic skills; qualifications and credit framework; fe lecturers and professionals in schools |
| Description | Alison Wolf was asked to consider by the Secretary of State for Education how vocational education for 14- to 19-year olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes. |
| Select quotations | “Key recommendations in the report include: - Incentivising young people to take the most valuable vocational qualifications pre-16, while removing incentives to take large numbers of vocational qualifications to the detriment of core academic study
- Introducing principles to guide study programmes for young people on vocational routes post-16 to ensure they are gaining skills which will lead to progression into a variety of jobs or further learning, in particular, to ensure that those who have not secured a good pass in English and mathematics GCSE continue to study those subjects
- Evaluating the delivery structure and content of apprenticeships to ensure they deliver the right skills for the workplace
- Making sure the regulatory framework moves quickly away from accrediting individual qualifications to regulating awarding organisations
- Removing the requirement that all qualifications offered to 14- to 19-year-olds fit within the Qualifications and Credit Framework, which has had a detrimental effect on their appropriateness and has left gaps in the market
- Enabling FE lecturers and professionals to teach in schools, ensuring young people are being taught by those best suited.”
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| Link | www.education.gov.uk/publications/eOrderingDownload/The%20Wolf%20Report.pdf |
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