new qualifications to help employers
Mon 31 Mar 2008
31/03/2008
| A new qualification system has been established, which hopes to provide clarity for employers. Ed Balls, secretary of state for children, schools and families, said the current system could be 'streamlined' so it is better understood, enabling all teenagers to gain qualifications that are "valued and allow them to achieve and succeed". "This strategy builds on the advice we have received from a group of independent experts from all parts of the education sector and employers," he explained. Under the new system, there will be four key national qualification routes: GCSEs and A levels, Diplomas, Apprenticeships and the Foundation Learning Tier. A new body, the Joint Advisory Committee on Qualification Approval, which will act as an external adviser, will monitor the changes. "I welcome this consultation," said John Dunford, general secretary of the association of school and colleges leaders, "which represents an important step on the road to a more coherent, better understood, qualifications system."
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