Comments on: C Is The New A http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/11/19/c-is-the-new-a/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt Schinckel http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/11/19/c-is-the-new-a/comment-page-1/#comment-7970 Matt Schinckel Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:31:44 +0000 http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2006/11/19/c-is-the-new-a/#comment-7970 I used to teach at a certain Vocational College, where I coined the phrase "A Centre of Competence." Part of this was due to the fact that we were in fact delivering and assessing lots of VTE, or VET as it was then called. Part of it was also to show how 'competence' has some connotations, which in the right light appear somewhat negative. Anyone who has assessed VTE knows that competence is what is indeed assessed, but it looks poor in comparison to looking for excellence. I used to teach at a certain Vocational College, where I coined the phrase “A Centre of Competence.”

Part of this was due to the fact that we were in fact delivering and assessing lots of VTE, or VET as it was then called. Part of it was also to show how ‘competence’ has some connotations, which in the right light appear somewhat negative. Anyone who has assessed VTE knows that competence is what is indeed assessed, but it looks poor in comparison to looking for excellence.

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