At the age of 16, many young people in the UK decide to leave school and enter vocational education or training, either at a Further Education (FE) college, or on a Government training scheme. In spite of the size and importance of this group, the current debate about education and training...

Psychometric tests continue to form an important part of careers guidance for young people of school leaving age throughout the UK. In the existing literature, there is little evidence about the impact of testing on subsequent labour market success. This paper presents a quantitative analysis of...

Diagnosis in contemporary medicine is made using an underlying classification system or nosology, the basis of which was first laid down at the end of the 18th century. The International Classification of Disease (ICD) was constructed to formalise this nosology and successive revisions have...