Diplomas: Impact and Development

1. Diplomas: Impact and Development Heather McClue heather.mcclue@beds.ac.uk

2. Allocation • Creative and Media (10 places) • Society, Health and Development (10 places) • Migration of Applied Subjects: - Business (Business Administration and Finance) - ICT (Information Technology) - Leisure and Tourism

3. 14 – 19 Team • 11 – 16 • 14 – 19 • PCE Issues so far: • Implications for 11 – 16 • Implications for current 14 – 19 provision • What will the programme look like? • Functional skills? • PLTs? • Placements Synergy across 11 – 19 provision

4. 14 – 19 Development Group • Working party feeds into Partnership Steering Committee • Steering Committee members: • UoB staff • Secondary school staff • FE Colleges (Barnfield/ Bedford) • LA reps (Beds, Luton, MK) • LSC reps • BEP (Business & Enterprise Partnership) • Employers

5. Tracking Developments • Matrix of local providers: • Authorities • Diploma offerings • When? • What level? • UoB staff attached to each line in the development group • UoB trainees research diploma developments in partner schools (Applied subjects only)

6. Components of the 14 – 19 course • Double badging QTS/ QTLS • Placements – consortium approach (3 placements school, college and employer) • Partnership with diploma champion in local school • CPD

7. Developing the trainee Photography trainee (Creative and Media): • What will constitute subject knowledge? • What will a C&M trainee look like? What qualifications will they join the course with? • Employability: how will their training prepare them? • How will we support second subject knowledge acquisition Concerns: • PLTs • Functional skills • Conflict between compliance and course requirements (QTS v Ofsted )

8. Summary Huge implications for 11 – 19 provision: • PGCE Secondary review • Programme redesign • Revising partnership • Collective vision