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When FE meets HE

Professor Simon Roodhouse reflects on the complex interaction between higher and further education and sounds a warning note about some recent developments

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Connectivity and responsiveness to vocational higher education to promote workforce development
The University Vocational Awards Council: the present view : Simon Roodhouse

This paper sets out to explore the case for higher education engagement with workforce development with reference to media studies in the light of recent government policy initiatives including the trilogy of White Papers, 14–19 Years, The Skills Strategy, and The Future of Higher Education.

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Honorable Intentions
Joking Apart, honorary NVQ's could be just what we need.
Simon Roodhouse: Tuesday January 17, 2006 : The Guardian

Honouring achievement in vocational learning must be taken seriously if we want to realise the potential of every one in this country. Rather than only recognising the achievements of the elite, we should be honouring those who have achieved through practical learning, and who have often made a significant contribution to our nation's economy.

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UVAC On Tomlinson
Professor Simon Roodhouse, cheif operating officer of the University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) gives t magazine his opinion on the Tomlinson report on 14 - 19 Reform.
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Replacing an incoherent and chaotic qualifications framework
Professor Simon Roodhouse, Chief Executive of the University Vocational Awards Council, follows up his article on streamlined qualifications (February’s issue of ‘t’ magazine) with a thought-provoking account of how a coherent qualifications framework would work.

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Employability and workforce development - a policy and practise dilemma for Higher Education - International Journal of Training and Research.

Professor Simon Roodhouse is the Chief Executive of the University Vocational Awards Council, the UK consortium dedicated to higher level vocational education and training, research Professor at University of Bolton, senior academic adviser to The Cultural Management Applied Research Group, University of Greenwich and adjunct Professor, Queensland University of technology, Australia.

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Vocational Qualifications and Higher Education: some policy issues
STEPHEN SWAILES University College Northampton, United Kingdom
SIMON ROODHOUSE University Vocational Awards Council, Bolton, United Kingdom

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New Statesman : Practical Learning, Breaking down the barriers to success.

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T Magazine : Levels Of Achievement

Professor Simon Roodhouse, chief executive of the University Vocational Awards Council examines the QCA proposal to establish an 8 level all encompassing national framework of achievement.

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WINNING THE WAR ON TALENT
Professor Simon Roodhouse, chief executive of the
University Vocational Awards Council (UVAC) explains why the right sort of professional development programme can help organisations attract the best candidates - and keep them.

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WINNING THE WAR ON TRAINING
companies need tomake their staff development schemes better than their competition's in order to attract and retain the best staff.

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Vocational Qualifications and Higher
Education: some policy issues


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The Training Managers Yearbook
Following several reviews of education and training, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) entered the UK’s education and training arena in 1986 in response to the ad hoc vocational qualification landscape built up in a typically pragmatic British way since 1945, which was increasingly failing to deliver a highly skilled workforce and enabling the unemployed to acquire contemporary skills, employers wanted. etain the best staff.

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Replacing an incoherent and chaotic qualifications framework
Professor Simon Roodhouse, Chief Executive of the University Vocational Awards Council, follows up his article on streamlined qualifications (February’s issue of ‘t’ magazine) with a thought-provoking account of how a coherent qualifications framework would work

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UVAC : New Vocational Initiatives
Proceedings of the University Vocational Awards Council Annual Conference, at St willams College, York, 2001

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UVAC : STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO THE TAKE-UP OF HIGHER LEVEL NVQS


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UVAC : Widening Participation in the Workplace
New Agenda for Further and Higher Education

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STUDENTS SKILLS OVERLOOKED
Britain trails behind the rest of Europe in taking into account people's prior workplace learning.

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STRUCTURAL BARRIERS TO THE TAKE-UP OF HIGHER LEVEL NVQS

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Levels of Achievement (ARTICLE)
't' Magazine - examining the QCA proposal to establish an 8-level all encompassing network framework of achievement.

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Employability and workforce development
A policy and practise dilemma for higher education

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NQF quals and levels chart
PDF Version of the NQF Quals and Levels Chart

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National Qualifications framework: Making sense of qualifications and levels.
A short piece regarding understanding the NQF Chart.

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Vocational Qualifications and Higher Education: some policy issues
This article reviews the reactions to higher-level National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) in the United Kingdom in the context of certification levels by level and subject

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2007, Special Issue Introduction, Education and Training Journal (ARTICLE)

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