NVQ is failing young people

By Pat Field, proprietor of the Rosie Lea Montessori Nursery in Leeds In the feature 'Pressure points' (12 April) Richard Dorrance, chief executive of CACHE, says that he does not accept that there were major variations in the standards of NVQs. Nor does he accept that the language of the NVQ system and the complex cross-referencing system poses problems for many candidates either - even though both these issues have recently been raised as areas for concern in a report produced by the Training Standards Council. However, the truth is that this system has been failing its younger candidates for...