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Skills for Work Future Developments

Skills for Work Future Developments. January 2008. Planning future developments. Aims : respond to Curriculum for Excellence provide choice from Access to Higher respond to stakeholder and market needs Context: centre capacity to deliver SQA capacity to develop SQA’s wider portfolio

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Skills for Work Future Developments

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  1. Skills for WorkFuture Developments January 2008

  2. Planning future developments Aims: • respond to Curriculum for Excellence • provide choice from Access to Higher • respond to stakeholder and market needs Context: • centre capacity to deliver • SQA capacity to develop • SQA’s wider portfolio • funding priorities

  3. Courses available from August 2007 (13) Access 3 (1) Intermediate 1 (7) Intermediate 2 (4) Higher (1)

  4. Courses available from August 2007 (13) Access 3 • Practical Experiences: Construction and Engineering Intermediate 1 • Construction Crafts • Early Education and Childcare • Engineering • Hairdressing • Hospitality • Rural Skills • Sport and Recreation Intermediate 2 • Construction Crafts • Early Education and Childcare • Financial Services • Sport and Recreation Higher • Health and Social Care

  5. Courses available from August 2008 (6) • Engineering Intermediate 2 • Energy Intermediate 2 • Hairdressing Intermediate 2 • Hospitality Intermediate 2 • Retailing Intermediate 2 • Uniformed and Emergency Services Intermediate 1

  6. Courses available from August 2008 (19) Access 3 (1) Intermediate 1 (8) Intermediate 2 (9) Higher (1)

  7. Choice at each level • Monitor Higher with a view to extending choice • Develop more Access 3 broad-based Courses • Scope existing provision at Access 2 • Continue to build choice at Intermediate levels

  8. Progression • No assumption in planning that each Course will be developed at different levels • Where there is an established need, different levels in same Skills for Work Course will be considered • All Skills for Work Courses may enhance progression to: • Further Education - Group Awards • Higher Education - Group Awards/Degrees • employment/training

  9. Areas under consideration for 2009 • Digital Media • Retail • Beauty Care • Automotive • Business/Administration • Creative/expressive arts • Science Technician • Medical Health Professions • Access

  10. Implementation support for August 2008 • Update letter October 2007 • Summary Course information December 2007 • Publication of Courses April 2008 • Launch events April 2008 • NABs August 2008 • SFEU support packs August 2008 • SQA Subject Support Networks On-going • Skill for Work website On-going

  11. A New Approach to Quality Assurance Donald Paterson Project Manager - NQPD

  12. The Highland Opportunity Innovative delivery and assessment approaches have presented an exciting opportunity to review our thinking about the internal and external quality assurance of Skills for Work Courses

  13. The Highland Opportunity In SfW courses it is the practical experiential processes that are important … not always the end products

  14. The Highland Opportunity A partnership approach to quality assurance ……

  15. The Highland Opportunity A partnership between SQA and regionally supported centres - working together to agree appropriate standards and interpretation of candidate performance

  16. The Highland Opportunity The best people to quality assure experiential assessment processes are the people closest to them

  17. The Highland Opportunity Local practitioners are best placed to form that important consensusof opinion that appropriate standards are being applied, and consistently met

  18. The Highland Opportunity Local internal verifiers can be present during the experiential delivery of Skills for Work courses …. observing the important practical candidate experiences at the centre of all Skills for Work courses

  19. The Highland Opportunity Regional quality assurance model An ongoing process Pilot

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