The government has recently made some significant changes to the way it measures the value of vocational qualifications. Historically the relative value of a vocational qualification – such as the Edexcel BTEC Diploma offered by CVQO – was measured by an equivalency to GCSEs. Following the Wolf Report (Prof Alison Wolf, 2011) hundreds of vocational qualifications had their GCSE equivalence changed and some had them removed altogether. The result is that some people have wrongly assumed that because certain BTECs no longer have the same GCSE equivalence that they are worth less to the learner. Edward Woods, chief executive, discusses how the CVQO-led Edexcel BTEC qualifications stand as a valued qualification in their own right, how they are recognised by employers as being valuable for many roles and in some cases they are the primary qualification for entry to some industries.