§ Mr. Bryan DaviesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to her answer of 14 November,Official Report, column 342, if she will list individually those national vocational qualifications accredited at 30 June that (a) had not attracted full awards and (b) had attracted fewer than 100 awards. [6971]
§ Mr. PaiceThe information requested is contained in a number of tables, copies of which have been placed in the Library. As I said in my answer of 14 November, individual vocational qualifications are subject to accreditation at regular intervals and, given the time it takes after accreditation for awards to become available to centres, and individuals to train towards them, at any one time a considerable proportion of individual NVQs will have attracted few awards. Only about a quarter of the titles listed had an award accredited before 1994.
Public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP, 1984 to 1993 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 North America Canada 7.2 6.9 7.0 6.9 6.8 6.2 6.2 6.7 7.2 6.9 Mexico 3.9 3.8 3.5 3.3 3.3 3.6 4.0 4.5 4.9 4.1 United States 4.6 4.6 4.8 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.2 5.5 5.4 5.2 Pacific Area Australia 5.4 5.4 5.3 5.1 5.5 n/a 4.6 4.7 5.5 5.6 Japan n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 3.7 3.6 3.7 3.6 3.6 New Zealand 4.7 5.1 5.8 5.9 6.1 n/a n/a n/a 6.5 6.7 European Union Austria 5.8 5.8 6.0 5.9 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.6 5.8 5.5 Denmark n/a 6.2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 6.3 n/a n/a 6.6 Finland 5.5 5.7 5.7 5.8 5.7 5.7 6.0 6.1 8.3 7.9 France 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.6 5.5 5.1 5.1 5.4 5.5 5.7 Germany 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.3 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.1 4.8 Greece 3.8 4.0 3.8 3.8 3.4 n/a n/a n/a n/a 3.5 Ireland 6.0 6.0 6.3 6.2 5.4 5.1 5.0 5.2 5.5 5.6 Italy 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.9 5.0 5.2 n/a 5.1 5.1 Netherlands 6.6 6.6 6.7 6.9 6.1 5.7 5.7 5.6 5.6 5.4 Portugal 4.0 4.0 4.3 4.1 4.2 4.0 4.3 5.5 n/a 5.4 Spain 3.4 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.9 4.2 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 Sweden 7.2 7.0 7.0 6.9 6.5 5.4 5.6 6.5 7.7 7.7 United Kingdom 5.2 4.9 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.8 4.9 5.3 5.2 5.1 Other OECD countries Czech Republic n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 4.2 n/a n/a 6.0 Norway 5.8 5.6 5.5 5.6 5.7 7.0 n/a 6.8 n/a 9.0 Switzerland 5.2 5.1 5.2 5.2 5.0 n/a 5.2 5.4 5.7 5.8 Notes:
Vertical bars indicate a break in the series.
n/a = Data not available.
Source:
Data supplied to OECD by individual countries for the publication "Education at a Glance", OECD December 1996.