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Chief Inspector makes speech on vocational education to annual conference of Association of Colleges
18 Nov 2005
On Thursday 19th November the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) published a package of reports on the education of 14-19 year olds to coincide with a speech by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, David Bell, at the annual conference of the Association of Colleges (AoC).
The Key Stage 4 Curriculum: Increased Flexibility; Work Related Learning and Young Apprenticeships; Developing Enterprising Young People; and Developing a Coherent 14-19 Phase of Education and Training reports all point to encouraging developments in the education and training of 14-19 year olds. Equally, the reports also point out that such strategies need to be implemented with commitment, coherence and vigour if they are to be truly successful.
In his speech to the AoC conference in Birmingham , Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools, David Bell backed the recommendations of Sir Andrew Foster’s review of further education (FE) which drew upon many of the findings contained in Further Education Matters: The First Four Years of Ofsted/ALI College Inspections, also published on Thursday.
The final report published by Ofsted on Thursday was Creating Opportunity for Young People, which evaluates the Department for Education and Skills' (DfES) grant scheme for National Voluntary Youth Organisations.
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