British vocational qualifications; a directory of vocational qualifications available in the United Kingdom, 11th ed.

9780749453411

British vocational qualifications; a directory of vocational qualifications available in the United Kingdom, 11th ed.

Kogan Page

2009

329 pages

$99.00

Paperback

HF5381

Reflecting recent change and reorganization in vocational education in the UK, this handy resource provides career advisers, students, teachers, human resource managers, and employee's current information on some 3,500 vocational qualifications in the UK for the 19-plus age group, along with details of awarding, examining, and validating bodies. The text lists qualifications from levels one to five in keeping with those most likely to be offered by further education colleges. The text includes an overview of the provision of vocational education in the UK; the directory of vocational qualifications, alphabetically organized under 110 professional and career areas and listing the types of qualifications, course title, level and awarding body; a list of acronyms of the awarding bodies, plus their full titles and addresses, sources of further information; and a directory of further education colleges offering vocational qualifications, listed alphabetically by area.

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