Say Yes for Children is a global campaign that will penetrate into every part of the world, to mobilize people from all walks of life around the issues that affect children's lives. Please take a minute to SAY YES right now. The Gulf region is on its way to becoming well-equipped to meet the challenges that come with modernisation, the conference was told yesterday. Nick Sansome, the Regional Manager, Edexcel Middle East, said that this could be achieved through the adaptation of NVQs in the training programmes. Sansome said there should be competence in a significant range of work activities performed in a variety of contexts.
Some activities are complex or non-routine and there is some individual responsibility or autonomy.
He said that collaboration with others, perhaps through membership of a work group or a team, might often be a requirement. The Edexcel official said that the workforce also had to be competent in a range of activities performed in a variety of contexts. These have to be done with considerable responsibility and autonomy and control of guidance of each other was often needed. Sansome said that the competence attained should also involve the application of a range of fundamental principles and complex techniques across a wide and often unpredictable variety of contexts. Very substantial and personal autonomy and often significant responsibility for the work of others and for the allocation of substantial resources feature strongly as do personal accountability for analysis and diagnosis, designing, planning, execution and evaluation.