• DocumentCode
    1483594
  • Title

    The downward slope: engineering HE and vocational qualifications in terminal decline?

  • Author

    Brown, Keith

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Int. Educ., Sunderland Univ., UK
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    4/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    44
  • Lastpage
    48
  • Abstract
    Using published data this paper analyses the trends in the numbers of students entering higher education and the qualifications that they had on entry. It analyses the post-16 qualification of the student that feed the higher education (HE) system and concludes that the numbers of students with vocationally-related qualifications are showing the most worrying decline. The paper sets the scene for the radical changes taking place to the post-16 and which commenced in September 2000
  • Keywords
    engineering education; BTEC/SCOTVEC; GNVQ; engineering higher education; post-16 qualification; vocational qualifications; vocationally-related qualifications;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Engineering Science and Education Journal
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0963-7346
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/esej:20010202
  • Filename
    920651
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1483594