What are NVQs equivalent to?

[jamiesamfreddie]

Can I pick your brains? Sorry to be such a dinosaur, but I have no real idea what NVQs are and wondered if they can be compared to GCSE's, A levels (are they still called A levels?!) and degrees?

Cheers

[kiskidee]

look here

[colditz]

Ummmm NVQ 2 is a few GCSE's, I think. Nvq 3 is comparable to an A level, and Nvq 4 is like a diploma. Nvq 5 may be a degree. I know you can run a residential home with NVQ 4.

[Blandmum]

They are still called A levels, but at the end of the first year you now sit your AS level (and can stop there if you wish). You can then go on to do A2, which gets you the 'full' A level

[zippitippitoes]

there is some strange correlation ds has them instead of a levels and had enough to get to university

oh no her hasn't just looked at his cetificateas whihc came this week they are avces

[jamiesamfreddie]

Thanks everyone - esp kiskidee, that link was great.