I agree with many of Sian Nisbett's points in 'In my view' (15 November). I have been expecting this training option to happen for quite some time now, under this hypocritical current childcare strategy that the Government advisors have come up with.
How can we be raising the qualifications of our current workforce by pressuring our already experienced staff (some of whom have been in the childcare/early education sector for more than 20 years), to undertake degrees and keep on upgrading their qualifications, if we are going to have 14-year-olds 'working' alongside them.
I find the whole idea laughable and unworkable for two reasons. First, as Sian points out, the programme of study content of multiple choice questions is completely ludicrous. As both an NVQ assessor and internal verifier myself, I believe the content of study should remain - that the trainee meets the benchmark NVQ standards and their work should be of their own research and learning journey, rather than some prompts.
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