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Your opinion: Letters
Nursery World,
27 March 2008
LETTER OF THE WEEK
HOW THE NVQ IS USED Reading the story about Carole Edmond of Teddies Nurseries calling for an overhaul of National Vocational Qualifications (News, 6 March), it seems to me that there is some misunderstanding about NVQs. An NVQ is not a programme of training but a system designed to determine an individual's ability to perform competently in their job, using a set of criteria agreed as the industry standard. It is wholly unreasonable to expect, as your leader in the same issue says, a '16-year-old disaffected schoolgirl', a statement with implications that quite took me aback,...
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