Employability Skills

There is a nice piece in Sec-Ed today about ASDAN employability skills and in particular the CoPE. The CoPE has come in for criticism becuase it's seen as one of those "easy to pass" quals that add to schools points table and students GCSE. That may be the case, but equally, it's actually a good qualification for those people who really need it. The solution could be to remove the points from it to stop encouraging schools to use it for performance table purposes and this will means those that do follow CoPE will actually value it and benefit from the skills it focusses on.

Maybe this is what the Government has in mind when it says "all qualifications" from awarding bodies are OK but only some will get counted?