A report by a team of ALI's inspectors, and published in ALI's Talisman newsletter this week, said that in 2005-06 more than two-thirds of candidates failed to gain their full framework award of NVQ 3, key skills and technical certificate.
It said, 'The success rates for early years apprenticeships make dismal reading and have done for the past three years: in 2005-06, for example, the success rate was just 30 per cent for advanced apprenticeships (NVQ 3) and 51 per cent for apprenticeships (NVQ 2).'
Thirty-four per cent of candidates achieved apprenticeships in health and social care, which includes early years, in 2005-06 (see table).
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