HOW THE NVQ IS USED Reading the story about Carole Edmond of Teddies Nurseries calling for an overhaul of National Vocational Qualifications (News, 6 March), it seems to me that there is some misunderstanding about NVQs. An NVQ is not a programme of training but a system designed to determine an individual's ability to perform competently in their job, using a set of criteria agreed as the industry standard. It is wholly unreasonable to expect, as your leader in the same issue says, a '16-year-old disaffected schoolgirl', a statement with implications that quite took me aback,...