Dear All
I've started to make some enquiries in order to try to influence this
decision.The government is very keen on enterprise at the moment so it
seems a retrograde step to ignore Business Studies. Various people in the
DfEE and the DTI that have worked with the EBEA before may be able to help!
It took this sort of activity to get Bized on the NGfL - but we did it.
Jenny Wales
>Agreed! All of the talk of mixing and matching GNVQ with A-Levels and
>giving parity of esteem to vocational routes seems to have flown out of the
>window and we are back to the 70's or earlier!
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Adrian John Lyons <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: 17 September 1999 16:10
>Subject: New exam but not for Business (again!)
>
>
>> I see from today's TES that the government is to introduce a new exam that
>goes beyond A level. This is designed to ensure that UK students can be
>comparred more easily with countries abroad with less post 16
>specialisation, by encouraging more specialisation. No I don't follow that
>logic either!
>>
>> Good news. At least Economics is included.
>> Bad news: as usual Business Studies has been excluded from the initiative
>as "vocational subjects would devalue it"
>>
>> Here we go again!
>>
>> Adrian
>>
Jenny Wales
Co-director
Nuffield Economics and Business
01701 436 4512
0181 940 9909
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