Monday 14 April 2008

Vocational or Academic?

There was a nice piece in the Guardian last week which really was focussed on asking the question - Are diplomas supposed to be vocational or academic?

I think that's a great question.

The difficulty in answering it, or even thinking about what the answer is, is that they are being "sold" as the be all and end all, and maybe that's a problem that QCA/DCFS need to overcome. They don't want to say that a Diploma is either Academic or Vocational for fear of alientating the others but by sitting on the fence, there is a risk that neither "side" will see them as a solution, leaving them on the fence for all time.

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