The ‘quickie’ route to qualifications
Posted on | November 25, 2008 |
Colleges have a radical plan to increase participation: the vocational degree tailored to a specific job
The bill allowing further education colleges to award their own foundation degrees (FD) faced some turbulence as it passed through the House of Lords a couple of years ago. Some peers with university connections were clearly fearful about what they saw as the thin end of a long wedge that would skewer higher education’s jealously guarded monopoly.
Now it looks as if their anxieties might have been justified. Ministers are looking at a proposal allowing colleges to award their own “vocational degrees”, which could be completed in a shorter time than the traditional three-year HE model.
The man who dreamed it up, David Collins, principal of South Cheshire College and president of the Association of Colleges (AoC), believes that unless radical schemes like his are given the go-ahead there is no hope that 40% of the working population will have at least a level 4 qualification (the equivalent of a higher education certificate) by 2020. That target was set in the Leitch report on skills and accepted by the government.
This article was found in the Guardian Online
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