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Attainment Centre Qualifications Review

Explore key milestones and strategies from the Government Response to the Wolf Report to enhance qualifications at the Attainment Centre. Learn about Vocational courses, QCF dismantling, and more in "The Document" for the best outcomes.

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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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