The UK has been engaged in a radical reform of its vocational education and training. As part of that process new methods have been devised to analyze and describe the outcomes which people are expected to achieve at work - which are called occupational standards. This text contains a description of functional analysis, the method developed to define occupational standards and National Vocational Qualifications. It also discusses changes in contemporary work patterns, arguing that a new model of occupational competence is needed - the Job Competence Model. The text is in four parts. The first argues for a more strategic role for vocational education and training - to develop a competent workforce able to meet the challenges of changing economic needs. Part two charts the development of models of occupational competence which reflect these changing needs. Parts three and four together constitute a manual on how to use functional analysis to develop and define the occupational standards which describe the performance characteristics of a competent workforce.
- ISBN10 0566076993
- ISBN13 9780566076992
- Publish Date 7 November 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 April 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gower Publishing Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English