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Vocational Versus Academic Education
After reading the literature the issues with respect to raising the profile of vocational education in relation to academic education centre on, snobbery, funding, teacher/trainer professionalism and the structure of vocational education and training.
The majority of the statements both for and against vocational qualifications have no factual supporting evidence, but the positions that those making the statements are in, suggest that their opinions carry some weight on the matter.
The consensus of professional opinion throughout the literature is that the current snobbery relating to academic education needs to be broken down, and the profile of VET raised so that it can be seen as a serious part of the 14-19 educational curriculum.
There is an entrenched snobbery attached to academic education in Britain, in the media, education institutions and more especially academic circles. ... He also agreed that Mr Blair was quite right to hype up vocational education, but thought that the confusion in his thinking was that trying to make VET equivalent to academic education resulted in a confused mix of the two. The “traditionalists” have criticised vocational GCSEs and A-levels on the grounds that they would “dumb down the curriculum”, a line that the government has rejected calling it an “outdated mentality”, during his attack on the educational establishment the prime minister said that “it is little more than snobbery” Ward and Woodward (2002). ... Vocational courses cost more than academic and so to be successful must be properly funded.
Approximate Word count = 1220
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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