Nursery World - Running out of time

I read with interest Nursery World's article on the NVQ assessor shortage (News, 2 June). At the time of reading I considered myself, an NVQ assessor, and my co-assessor fortunate to have a college that understood the time that is needed to develop a candidate and help them achieve the NVQ. This meant that we were able to be confident that our candidates would be good practitioners when they went to work in early years settings in our county.

At the time of reading I considered myself, an NVQ assessor, and my co-assessor fortunate to have a college that understood the time that is needed to develop a candidate and help them achieve the NVQ. This meant that we were able to be confident that our candidates would be good practitioners when they went to work in early years settings in our county.

Little did I know what was in store! Our employers have decided to standardise all NVQ assessor pay and conditions regardless of what NVQ they are assessing. Consequently, we have been given two hours to travel to the setting, observe, feedback, discuss and mark each unit. We were told Government cutbacks were to blame.

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