21 st century skills are underpinned by rigorous quality assurance matt clarke senior international...
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21st Century Skills
are underpinned by rigorous quality
assurance
Matt Clarke
Senior International Business Manager
Pearson : Edexcel
Topics for Discussion
• Who is Pearson– What Pearson Does– Where Pearson is
• Skills for the 21st Century: Pearson Model• Why have Quality Assurance in Vocational
Education?• What does Edexcel bring?• Centre delivery model• Edexcel Model for Quality Assurance
500m people learning and testing in English
65% Pearson Education17% Financial Times
18% Penguin 8m college students using
our online services
1.5m learners studying vocational progs
200m assessment items scored worldwide annually
Deliver 9m computer based tests annually with 4,000 test centres in 145 countries
£6 billion sales pa Publishing in 100 languages
40,000 employees
Who is Pearson?
The world’s largest learning company
• Staff in 65 countries
Customers in 150 countries
Pearson – the world’s leading learning company
Pearson Applied Learning Division
Pearson in the Region - in the region for over 60 years
• Employ over 300 permanent staff across the region
• Offices in UAE, Egypt (Cairo), Turkey, KSA.
• Significant public and private sector business and projects in:
• Syria, Lebanon, Jordan Egypt, West Bank, UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen
• Strong track record in:• Schools• Higher education • English language teaching• Vocational qualification and skills training• Assessment• School Improvement
The Pearson education business in summary
DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Learning
materials
Assessment &
information
Teaching
& training
Qualifications
& certification
K-12
Academic
Tertiary
Education
Vocational
Higher
Education
OccupationalProfessional
PartnershipsPARTNERSHIPS
The Context in Egypt
Economy and young people
• Private employers create 80-90% new jobs• Lack of jobs to absorb an educated, young
and rapidly growing labour force
Education• Produces 750,000 new college graduates,
many of whom have limited skills and lack training, and are not ready for the workforce.
• Large proportion of Egypt’s unemployed young people are graduates;
• Schools /University system failing to prepare its students for the modern labour market
The challenges of TVET in the Middle East & North Africa
• Shortage of vocational skills in all sectors• Lack of guidance for young people• Outdated Course content.• Teaching practices outdated, lack of
professional development • lack of effective quality assurance
processes• Only 1/3 of students believe education has
equipped them for a job • Lack of internships & job placements
connected to a TVET education• Many Vocational Professions seen as
unattractive, lacking in career opportunities & low wages
• “Negative perceptions” academic courses considered better option
Effective Education for Employment Blue Print
Why should we have Quality Assurance in TVET?
• Fitness for purpose• Compliance (zero error or deviation)• Satisfaction of students and parents• Excellence• Value for money• Transformation (process of
changing the student)• Enhancement (process of changing)• Control (rewarding process of QA)• Public information, reassurance,
confidence• Ranking• Accountability• International acceptability• Resource allocation
Quality Assurance has two main functions:
Quality enhancement: the maintenance and continual enhancement of teaching and learning within of the entire institutional framework Internal QA
..with regards to the outside world External QA
Accountability: the demonstration of quality to external
stakeholders (governments, students, parents, employers,
society) for different reasons, including legal requirements
and promotion of the institute. External QA
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Aspects of Institutional Quality Assurance
Internal: What: review processes and implementation of new strategies fit to the mission
goals, profile and context of a ‘training organisation’Why: for the enhancement of the overall performance of the institution and all its
parts and elements, and the promotion of creativity and innovationHow: activated by a dynamic quality culture – shared values and attitudes, staff
identification with the institution as a community of learning, etc.
External:What: either voluntary or compulsory review/evaluation/audit by an external QA
review bodyWhy: accountability and validation, and trust building between the institution and
the outside worldHow: often motivated by laws, requirements of funding agencies and sometime
just a desire to be different to the masses
Developing a Quality Assurance processFocus Areas:
Output: Examine the outcomes of the institution’s activities: teaching, research, goal achievement etc. Associated with excellence, fitness-for-purpose,
Effectiveness. Input: Tallying of factors like equipment, staffing, funding etc. Needs to be related to output.
Process: The activities that lead to the desired outcomes, such as governance structures, decision-making processes
or administrative procedures.
Centre of Learning
Specialist Training
Centre of Learning:
Model for success
Blended Learning Approach – Getting it right
Customise and localise training & qualifications
Managing Quality: A culture to be fostered within the centre
Assessor
The role of the Assessor
Internal Verifier
The role of the Internal Verifier (IV)
• checks centre compliance with approval criteria
• monitors centre performance to ensure○ quality of assessment (meets standard)○ consistency of assessment (all assessors/assessments)○ accuracy of records○ teaching methodologies
• monitors training delivery
• provides support, guidance and best practise to the centre
• reports back to Edexcel with recommendations
The role of the External Verifier (EV)
Skilled tutorsproven teaching skillsproven subject knowledge broad knowledge of the relevant Industries Modern learning environment and equipmentspacious classroomsup-to-date student facilities (ie: IT equipment)necessary library facilitiesrelevant student support materials Student enrolmentadequate marketing to studentsregistration and tuition of studentscollection of Edexcel student fees Programme delivery and assessmentdevelopment of course materialsdesign and implementation of student assessment mechanismscontinued high-quality delivery of Edexcel programmes
What Edexcel expects from our partners
