1. Sector Skills Councils should be responsible for approving qualifications after their development by awarding boards or other organisations. They should reject qualifications if they fail to adequately capture the competences laid down in occupational standards. (4.41)

2. SSCs to approve new qualifications based on employers' own internal training where this meets national quality assurance requirements... This means that individual employers will be able to offer their own, nationally recognised qualifications, where their training has clear economic value. (4.43)

3. Similarly, colleges and other providers should be able to offer their own qualifications, subject to SSC approval and consistency with a national regulatory framework. (4.45)

4. For vocational qualifications, only those approved by SSCs should qualify for public funding. This would apply to funding for work-based learning qualifications such as NVQs, including Levels 4 and 5, through the LSC in England. (4.41)

5. SSCs should be specifically charged with significantly reducing the number of qualifications (4.42) ... [and] should develop a short list of such qualifications, with a very significant reduction in the overall number, by 2008. (4.41)

6. As with qualifications, SSCs should control the content of Apprenticeships and set attainment targets by sector facilitated by skills brokers. (5.66)

7. Sector Skills Agreements should include clear commitments and targets, including for the number of Apprenticeships, for increased employer achievement of intermediate and higher skills. (5.71)

8. The Review recommends that all publicly funded, adult vocational skills in England, apart from community learning and programmes for those with learning problems and disabilities, go through demand-led routes by 2010. This means all adult skills funding should be routed through Train to Gain and Learner Accounts by 2010. (4.16; see also 6.36)

9. The Review recommends a rebalancing of the priorities of HE institutions to make available relevant, flexible and responsive provision that meets the high skills needs of employers and their staff. (3.61)

10. To further embed these incentives, the Review recommends that a portion of higher education funding for vocational courses, currently administered through HEFCE in England, be delivered through a similar demand-led mechanism as Train to Gain. (4.41; 5.74)

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