Sentences with phrase «vocational qualifications in»

The company offers a Design Trainee programme for students who've completed school or have vocational qualifications in two variants — Piping and Instrumental Design and Electrical Design.

The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England and vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland.

Qualifications Wales is responsible for regulating general and vocational qualifications in Wales.

The Active IQ Level 2 Certificate in Health, Wellbeing and Physical Activity Leadership Tech Award combines Sports Leaders UK's extensive experience in school qualifications with Active IQ's experience in technical and vocational qualifications in the active leisure and learning sector.

Both EBN schools offer a programme of study that encompasses GCSEs in sciences, English and maths, as well as the opportunity to work towards vocational qualifications in a range of other subjects.

The report suggests that this could be because high attaining pupils were the first to be encouraged by their schools to enter the EBacc, whereas lower attaining pupils may have been steered away from vocational qualifications in the direction of the arts.

Undertaking a vocational qualification in school is linked to increased Year 12 completion rates for male Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) students, according to a new report.

The Apprentice Learner Survey found that only 4.5 % of those who completed their apprenticeship scheme with a Level 4 vocational qualification in 2013 became unemployed within just six months.

Not exact matches

As part of a wide - ranging review into vocational education, the engineering qualification developed by JCB, Rolls Royce, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the University of Cambridge, will in future count as only one GCSE rather than five as is the case now in school performance league tables.

As well as English and maths, it will measure how well pupils perform in at least three subjects from the English Baccalaureate — sciences, history, geography, languages — and Computer Science, and in three additional subjects, whether those are arts subjects, academic subjects or high quality vocational qualifications.

But when it finally came for them to give an account of themselves to the tribunal, Mr Justice McCloskey found neither of them had «any qualifications or expertise, vocational or otherwise, in the scientific subject matter of these appeals».

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

The Tomlinson report published in October 2004 proposed a series of radical changes, including replacing GCSEs, A Levels and vocational qualifications with a single diploma available at four levels - entry, foundation, intermediate and advanced.

«It is hard to see how the effective demolition of vocational qualifications at 16 will help the UK compete in the global marketplace.

The latest development is the commitment to raising standards for school leavers in English and maths, in response to the Wolf report that exposed fake vocational qualifications.

«Pupils and teachers in 2014 are going to have to cope with new GCSEs, new A-levels, new vocational qualifications, new ways of tracking pupil progress once levels are abolished, on top of new curriculum content in all subjects,» the Association of School and College Leaders» Brian Lightman warned.

The fact that there has been a 2,300 per cent increase in the number of students taking vocational qualifications since 2004 should not solely be attributed to students and schools taking the easy option in maintaining their position in the league tables.

A new vocational NVQ level 2 Facilities Services qualification has been developed by the FM Sector Skills Council, Asset Skills, in consultation with MITIE and other employers and has been accredited as a national qualification.

In an article for the Telegraph, Bashaarat claimed that although vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery»In an article for the Telegraph, Bashaarat claimed that although vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery»in the dark» about the pathways the that BTECs open up for learners and added that the qualifications were «victims of intellectual and class snobbery».

e-Portfolios have been used widely in the vocational qualification market for the last 15 years and e-marking has been used in the last 10 years for education exams with all the unitary awarding bodies having adopted e-marking; a process where scripts are scanned in and then human - graded using simple work - flow or complex tools to manage the marking and quality checking of exam scripts.

The units do coinside with other BTEC qualifications, however, we use it here as a basic introduction to the kitchen, we deliver it to KS3 and Year 10 and often use the units of work to count towards their Pearson BTEC Level 1 Award in Vocational Studies (QCF).

Davies background is in teaching and assessment in vocational qualifications, inspection and policy development.

According to Role of lower - level qualifications in Australia's vocational education and training system (ACER March 2015) enrolment patterns demonstrate the sensitivity of enrolments to changes in funding arrangements.

The new vocational qualifications will be supported by funding worth # 60 million in 2018 - 19, rising to # 445 million in 2021 - 22, and eventually to «over # 500 million» a year, Tes has reported.

Exciting new resources were discussed as well as developments in both general and vocational qualifications highlighting what has changed and how the subject has evolved.

«In contrast, those with medium or low prior attainment may have initially been guided towards arts subjects, away from vocational qualifications,» it said.

In this video I have discussed how to make statistical inference from summary statistics using median shift; overall visible shift and informal confidence interval for medians for the weekly wage of people with degree and vocational qualification with a sample size of 30 of both groups

Technical and vocational qualifications approved for reporting in school performance tables.

Lists of technical and vocational qualifications approved for reporting in school performance tables.

If attainment across a broader range of subjects are be counted, then arts subjects and vocational qualifications count for something in school accountability as well.

According to Magnus Bashaarat, vocational qualifications are «highly rated» by universities, but many parents remain «in the dark» about the pathways that BTECs open up for learners.

According to recent figures from Ucas, over a quarter of English students accepted to university in 2015 held at least one BTEC (Business and Technician Education Council) in their qualification set, while business leaders have spoken in support of vocational study.

Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in the field of assessment and delivery of vocational qualifications.

The DUP also call for «greater value being placed on vocational qualifications» in their manifesto.

He believes some schools boosted their league table positions in the past by entering students for «softer» subjects and vocational qualifications.

Ministers have cut the value of more than 3,100 vocational qualifications, ending their recognition in England's school league tables.

We do need to demand high academic standards from as many lessons as possible, and I think it's the kind of core academic skills in literacy and numeracy, which actually are the truly vocational qualifications.

In England, changes to the National Curriculum, to vocational qualifications and to how GCSEs are examined are already underway.

To count in school performance tables alongside the new GCSEs, vocational qualifications have also been required to adopt more «academic» types of learning and assessment.

Pupils in year 12 and 13 will combine vocational courses with level 3 English and maths qualifications and employability skills.

The free school is unusual for focusing on vocational rather than academic qualifications, as these are typically provided in further education sector.

Right back in 2012, when this was ongoing, union leader Chris Keates said such moves would exacerbate the belief that vocational qualifications were less important.

Children could be taught how to calculate change in house prices, or the value of mortgages, as part of new vocational maths qualifications announced today.

Students require additional support in order to develop into confident and independent young men and women and the centre provides tailored vocational learning and qualifications for the students to build up a toolbox of invaluable practical life skills; skills that will support them in life beyond education.

While arguing that the system of vocational qualifications was «complex and opaque», Professor Wolf said that in practice «good levels of English and mathematics continue to be the most generally useful and valuable vocational skills on offer».

«They will lead to a boost in the quality of vocational qualifications being taken and will enhance the opportunities for young people to progress.»

By offering the part - practical, part - theoretical qualifications in academic subjects as well as more vocational ones, the former Labour administration had hoped to make the diploma more attractive to academically brighter pupils.

But now the Department for Education has set out strict new criteria so that what it says are only valued vocational qualifications are recognised in the tables.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said greater rigour in vocational qualifications was essential for achieving high standards and that Labour supported this.

«No pupil should be preparing for a vocational qualification simply to boost the schools «GCSE or equivalent» score in the performance tables.