The wolf report 2011 pdf

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The government's response to Professor Wolf's recommendations on how vocational education for to year-olds can be improved. This was published under the to Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government. Book your coronavirus vaccination and booster dose on the NHS website. To help us improve GOV. However, Professor Wolf argues that this is not to say that we should try to hark back to a 'golden age', as the economy and labour market has changed to such a huge extent.

According to the report, today's vocational education system should respond to the following five key developments in recent decades:. One of the major themes of the report is that too many young people are engaged in vocational courses that do not offer them a 'successful pathway into employment or higher education'.

In particular, the following key challenges are highlighted:. The report highlights a number of principles that should drive forward reform. First, it says that the system has 'no business tracking and steering' young people 'into programmes which are effectively dead-end'.

Professor Wolf is especially critical of a number of lower-level vocational qualifications which have grown in popularity in schools in recent years, allegedly in part because they boost the league table scores of individual schools. She argues that there should be a focus on providing a programme of study for all young people which 'should provide for labour market and educational progress on a wide front, whether immediately or later in life'. Secondly, she says that there must be much greater transparency about the outcomes from following certain pathways, particularly the research showing very poor earnings potential of certain qualifications e.

Not surprisingly, she recommends that simplification of the system must be a key principle on the basis that 'English vocational education is extraordinarily complex and opaque by European and international standards' largely due to the extent of overlapping government structures and initiatives. According to the analysis we could do much better by learning best practice from countries such as Denmark, France and Germany.

This review considers how vocational education for to year-olds can be improved in order to promote successful progression into the labour market and into higher level education and training routes.

It provides practical recommendations to help inform future policy direction, taking into account current financial constraints. Book your coronavirus vaccination and booster dose on the NHS website. To help us improve GOV.

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