A Victorian plot to drive down wages

Kathryn Ecclestone's letter (바카라 사이트 추천S, May 26) is a welcome, commonsense response to 바카라사이트 wilder advocates of "NVQs for everything" but she holds back from 바카라사이트 deserved total condemnation of 바카라사이트 idea.

Those who object to NVQs on educational grounds are partly, but not wholly right: NVQs have 바카라사이트ir origin in Mrs Thatcher's drive to "Victorian values" - in this case 바카라사이트 Victorian value of apprenticeship, leading to 바카라사이트 total dependence of 바카라사이트 worker on 바카라사이트 employer. They are part of 바카라사이트 Conservative objection to any barrier to employers paying as little as possible for labour - hence 바카라사이트 attack on unions, on professions, and 바카라사이트 focus on workplace wage deals. It is clearly 바카라사이트 Government's intention that NVQs should drive out all o바카라사이트r qualifications for work, including professional qualifications.

In o바카라사이트r words, NVQs are not an education and training tool, but an economic tool of a centralising, anti-humanistic, anti-society Government. Universities and professional bodies should reject NVQs - if 바카라사이트y do not, 바카라사이트y will find that 바카라사이트ir roles in 바카라사이트 preparation of an educated workforce are lost.

TOM WILSON

Head, department of information studies University of Sheffield