The Study On Core Competencies And Its Training In British Vocational Education

For historic reason, the development of British Vocational education was quite slow, but since 1980's, the British government has taken a series of reforming measures which enabled British Vocational education to enter a new stage of development. Under the leadership of the Qualification and Curriculum Authority, people from various walks of life have carried on research, and the national standard system for core competencies took shape, thus the training of core competencies became the core target and key content of various kinds of vocational qualification training. The development .perfecting and training of core competencies have not only put up a bridge between vocational education and ordinary education, found a unitary foundation for establishing a National Vocational Qualification System ,but also exercised important influence over the improvement of labor-force and economic development in Britain. The development and training of core competencies in British Vocational education not only possess value which can be made use of for quality training in our vocational education, but also provide us certain enlightment for further competency-based cognition.