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Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone? Skills-Led Qualifications, Secondary School Attainment and Policy Choices
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Harrison, Neil; James, David; Last, Kathryn – Research Papers in Education, 2015
In the name of curriculum breadth and raising standards, recent government policy in England has removed a large number of non-academic qualifications from the list of those that secondary schools can count in league tables, discouraging their use. Most of these were vocational qualifications, but they also include skills-led qualifications. This…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Educational Policy, Employment Potential, Benchmarking