functional skills
1,577
76
£4.38
key skills
695
5
£0.17
E2E
353
3
£0.15
14-19 diploma
463
2
£0.08
14-19 curriculum
84
0
I know that I’m sad but look at the stats above and partiocualrly what people search for in Google.
Originally Key Skills took the outright lead as I mentioned in an earlier post but the last couple of weeks have seen an explosion in searches for diploma and funcationals skills.
Comments welcomed!
Thursday 22 November 2007
Friday 9 November 2007
7 GCSEs!
So reports are suggesting that passing level 2 diploma will be counted as 7 GCSE.
Two thoughts on this really. Great becuase then kids who would otherwise stand no chance of getting 5 passes including Maths and English can focus all their effdorts on diploma and walk away with just one qwualification worth 7 GCSE passes.
However and it's a big one this......
Does this simply devalue the qualification. The problem with the Thomas Telford 4 GCSE pass in IT was that it simply wasn't worth - emploeyers didn't take it seriously, neirther did HE and even in colleges. A Thomas Telford qualification plus a a grade C in PE or Media (sorry nothing against these subjects at all just exmaples) is only good for school league tables.
So a big worry is that it becomes the easy option and overvalued which is NOT THE WAY to get diplomas and functional skills accepted as a qwuality alternative qualification.
Two thoughts on this really. Great becuase then kids who would otherwise stand no chance of getting 5 passes including Maths and English can focus all their effdorts on diploma and walk away with just one qwualification worth 7 GCSE passes.
However and it's a big one this......
Does this simply devalue the qualification. The problem with the Thomas Telford 4 GCSE pass in IT was that it simply wasn't worth - emploeyers didn't take it seriously, neirther did HE and even in colleges. A Thomas Telford qualification plus a a grade C in PE or Media (sorry nothing against these subjects at all just exmaples) is only good for school league tables.
So a big worry is that it becomes the easy option and overvalued which is NOT THE WAY to get diplomas and functional skills accepted as a qwuality alternative qualification.
Friday 2 November 2007
Browns October speech in my view
"We need not just education reform but culture change."
"Opportunities are only meaningful if people have the capabilities, resources and the aspirations to make the most of them. So inequalities in aspiration and capability must be tackled." He talked as much about involving parents, increasing take-up of apprenticeships and university places and bottom-up development, yes he mentioned closing schools as well but it wasn’t the core of the speech.
"The very idea of personalising learning is about helping children become more aspirational: that we identify talent, we shape education around the unique needs and aspirations of the child, and we engage pupils in their own learning - giving them a thirst for education and knowledge that will stay with them long after they have left school." Is that a new definition for personalised learning perhaps?"
"This is my belief: that world-class performance comes from consistent brilliance from teachers in every classroom; professionals who seek continuous improvement, who teach better lessons tomorrow than they did yesterday because they are learning all the time; who when a pupil falls behind don't assume it is a lack of ability but instead ask - 'how could I teach that material better to enable my pupil to master it?'"
People occassionally tell me “I don’t need anything new or innovative because we’re really good now” perhaps I need a better answer than OK then!
"Opportunities are only meaningful if people have the capabilities, resources and the aspirations to make the most of them. So inequalities in aspiration and capability must be tackled." He talked as much about involving parents, increasing take-up of apprenticeships and university places and bottom-up development, yes he mentioned closing schools as well but it wasn’t the core of the speech.
"The very idea of personalising learning is about helping children become more aspirational: that we identify talent, we shape education around the unique needs and aspirations of the child, and we engage pupils in their own learning - giving them a thirst for education and knowledge that will stay with them long after they have left school." Is that a new definition for personalised learning perhaps?"
"This is my belief: that world-class performance comes from consistent brilliance from teachers in every classroom; professionals who seek continuous improvement, who teach better lessons tomorrow than they did yesterday because they are learning all the time; who when a pupil falls behind don't assume it is a lack of ability but instead ask - 'how could I teach that material better to enable my pupil to master it?'"
People occassionally tell me “I don’t need anything new or innovative because we’re really good now” perhaps I need a better answer than OK then!
More diplomas
Another three diplomas announced covering the rather generic areas of science humanities and languages.
Actually, I quite like this idea. If the diplomas do deliver the basics in Maths English and ICT then the rounded "humanities" in many ways is better than just discrete qualifications in each individual subject.
Looks promising as they say.
Actually, I quite like this idea. If the diplomas do deliver the basics in Maths English and ICT then the rounded "humanities" in many ways is better than just discrete qualifications in each individual subject.
Looks promising as they say.
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