NVET Reform

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the UK system for retraining employees and job placement that is administered under the National Vocational Education Training (NVET) system, as part of the system of adult education. The paper explains the assumption that gaining a formal education is a key to achieving advancement and to attaining employment opportunities. The paper explains that the school of the future will be redesigned, with a greater emphasis on social equality and justice, closer ties to the community as a whole, greater parental participation and looser ties to government. The paper shows how the reforms for the NVET reflect these concerns and can be seen as a first step in designing an education for the future.

Outline:
Introduction
The NVET
Retraining
Human Capital Theory

From the Paper:

"The redesign of the system is not fully mapped out, and what has been suggested to date merely shows the view that the old system will not work for the future and that a redesign is necessary, in keeping with the sort of changes taking place around the world in order to educate and train the coming generation for a different world structure and a different technological environment."
"Certain ideas about the relationship among education, poverty, and employment opportunities are assumed by much of society. It is assumed first that gaining a formal education is a key to achieving advancement and to attaining employment opportunities. Poverty is seen as reducing one's ability to gain an education, just as gaining an education is seen as a way of overcoming poverty. The social importance of education is emphasized again and again in the literature on education and also in the literature on various social problems."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Davies, D., 1999, 'Learning to Succeed' - the UK government's White Paper. http://www.staffs.ac.uk/journal/comm-1.htm.
• 'House of Commons Official Report' (Hansard), Wednesday 10 March 1999, vol 327, written answers, columns 214-215.
• 'Improving Literacy and Numeracy: a Fresh Start - the Report of the Working Group Chaired by Sir Claus Moser', DfEE, 1999.
• 'Inclusive Learning: a Report of the Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities Committee,' HMSO, 1996.
• Keep E., 2000, Learning Organisations, Lifelong Learning and the Mystery of the Vanishing Employers. http://www.open.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/papers/39295485-0007-585D-0000015700000157_EwartKeepOUCONF-Paper.doc.

More papers on NVET Reform:

• Essay # 143832 : "Educational Reform In Post-Colonial Africa"
• Dissertation or Thesis # 108957 : "Philippine Public Administration Reform"
• Research Paper # 69660 : "Reform and Re-Organization in Urban High Schools"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: