Centre of Vocational Excellence
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Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) is a status given to departments in further education colleges (and some third party training companies) in England
. It is intended as a kind of quality guarantee for vocational teaching, and is awarded by the Learning and Skills Council
if the teaching is of good quality and if the department offers a range of courses with progression
routes up to Level 3 or beyond in the National Qualifications Framework
.
There currently 400 departments given the CoVE status.
While Centres of Vocational Excellence are common place, as an organizational model, the Centre of Excellence model has been extended as one of Mintzberg and his 5 organizational forms. While difficult to implement without a blended rate model, if using a blended salary model implementations of the centre of excellence model are easier to implement.
England
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. It is intended as a kind of quality guarantee for vocational teaching, and is awarded by the Learning and Skills Council
Learning and Skills Council
The Learning and Skills Council was a non-departmental public body jointly sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department for Children, Schools and Families in England...
if the teaching is of good quality and if the department offers a range of courses with progression
Progression
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routes up to Level 3 or beyond in the National Qualifications Framework
National Qualifications Framework
The National Qualifications Framework is a credit transfer system developed for qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland....
.
There currently 400 departments given the CoVE status.
While Centres of Vocational Excellence are common place, as an organizational model, the Centre of Excellence model has been extended as one of Mintzberg and his 5 organizational forms. While difficult to implement without a blended rate model, if using a blended salary model implementations of the centre of excellence model are easier to implement.
External links
- Learning and Skills Council - CoVE scheme
- List of colleges with CoVE status (Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications...
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