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Vocational Qualifications in England
Julian Stanley
Centre for Education and Industry,
University of Warwick
London, 22 October 2012
Organisations involved with Vocational Qualifications
• Awarding Organisations Producers• Skills Sector Councils• Further Education Colleges Trainers• Training Organisations• Employers Users• Students• Ofqual – Public Regulator Governors
– Qualification Curriculum Framework• UK Commission for Employment and Skills
What do Skills Councils Do
• Skills forecasting• Designing occupational standards
– research, define and update competences for particular jobs
• Designing apprenticeships• Encouraging employers to train workers
Sector Skills Councils
– Proskills the Process and Manufacturing Sector• Standards and qualifications
– Summit Skills – Building Services Engineering– Semta - Sector Skills Council for the Advanced
Manufacturing and Engineering sectors– Cogent – chemical, pharmaceutical, energy, life
sciences
National Occupational Standards
• Set out the standards required to work in particular occupations/jobs
• Designed by groups of employers and experts, e.g. Murco
• Owned by sector skill councils• Reviewed every 3 years• Public consultation
Occupational Standards
• Performance criteria = what you can do• Knowledge and Understanding = what
you know and can explain
Task 1• Visit websites for Sector Skills Councils:
http://www.sscalliance.org/ - identify 3 Sector Skills Councils
• Visit the website for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) – what does it do?
Task 2• National Occupational Standards
Database• Task: go to National Occupational
Standards database and identify performance criteria and knowledge and understanding for a particular occupational standard
Awarding Organisations• Edexcel• OCR• City and Guilds
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See Register of Regulated Organisations
What do awarding organisations do?
• Design the qualifications• Quality assure provider (college or
school)• Set the assessment, e.g. exam• Carry out assessment, validate, monitor
and report and issue diploma
Task 3
Which awarding organisation provides:• BTEC qualifications?• Cambridge Technical qualifications?
Find out the name of a qualification provided by City and Guilds.
National Vocational Qualifications
• competence based• performance of tasks• assessed by observation and
questioning – log book• work-based• for adults in work and apprentices
Vocationally related Qualifications• BTECs and Cambridge Technicals
– Levels 1-3– 14-19 year olds– No written exams– Practical assessments and coursework– Taught in college and schools– Qualify for work and university
• ‘Diplomas’– National qualifications– 14-19 year olds– 14 sectors including engineering– include key skills and generic skills– Qualify for work and university– school or college based– written exams and coursework assessment
Key Skills• GCSEs – academic qualifications, e.g.
mathematics, English, history• Functional Skills – practical skills –
using skills at work, at home– English– Mathematics– Information and Communications
Technology
Generic or wider Key Skills• Problem solving• information technology• Team work• Communication• Improving own learning and
performance
Task• Visit the register:
http://register.ofqual.gov.uk/Qualification
Explore the different types of qualification
Explore the different types of qualifications under type – English for Speakers of Other Languages
Apprenticeship Frameworks– Knowledge (Technical Certificate usually a
vocational qualification )– Skills (Usually a National Vocational
Qualification)– Key skills– Employment Rights– Generic Skills
Task
Go to Apprenticeship data base• Find an Apprenticeship Framework at Level 2,
for example, engineering• Find another Framework at Level 3 and Level
4• Find out what information is available about
each framework• Find out what pathways there are• Feedback to group