HOW THE NVQ IS USED
Reading the story about Carole Edmond of Teddies Nurseries calling for an overhaul of National Vocational Qualifications (News, 6 March), it seems to me that there is some misunderstanding about NVQs.
An NVQ is not a programme of training but a system designed to determine an individual's ability to perform competently in their job, using a set of criteria agreed as the industry standard.
It is wholly unreasonable to expect, as your leader in the same issue says, a '16-year-old disaffected schoolgirl', a statement with implications that quite took me aback, to have any skills in an area of work that they are only beginning to get involved in.
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