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Attainment Centre Qualifications Review

Attainment Centre Qualifications Review. Alex Kirkbride. Wolf Report. Remove incentives to run courses solely for their impact on school league tables. Vocational courses should constitute 20% or less of a student’s timetable. Effectively dismantle the QCF

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Attainment Centre Qualifications Review

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  1. Attainment CentreQualifications Review Alex Kirkbride

  2. Wolf Report • Remove incentives to run courses solely for their impact on school league tables. • Vocational courses should constitute 20% or less of a student’s timetable. • Effectively dismantle the QCF • Vocational qualifications should be limited to 1 GCSE per course. • Level 2 courses should have a path to level 3

  3. Government Response to the Wolf Report – Key Milestones

  4. “The Document” This document outlines the qualifications that will count in performance tables from September. You have a copy on your CD

  5. The Attainment Centre’s Needs • Maximising coursework content • Minimising examination content • Minimising literacy and numeracy dependant content • A qualification that can be delivered by non-ICT-specialist teaching staff • A qualification whose support materials can be extensively constructed within the VLE • A qualification that counts in the school’s performance tables • A qualification that empowers the students of the AC with skills which they will use later in life

  6. My Shortlist

  7. NCFE Interactive Media • Benefits; • Extremely open and flexible with varied contexts and scenarios being able to be applied to the different units. • 3 Core Units to be completed with one optional. • 100% Coursework • 49 League Table Points • Equivalent to a GCSE B Grade

  8. QCF IT Users Qualification • Benefits; • There are a number of resources which can be gleaned from the 4 different examination boards (especially City & Guilds and OCR). • 1 Core Unit and 3 Optional Units to be completed with one optional. • With the exception of the BCS course - 100% Coursework • 49 League Table Points • Equivalent to a GCSE B Grade

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