The new diplomas

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The new diplomas

• The Advanced Creative and Media Diploma

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2005 14-19 Education and Skills White Paper

• The new diplomas have been developed in
  collaboration with employers and HE
• The intention is to
• provide access to skilled employment and HE
• meet the skills needs of the economy

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Diploma Development Partnerships

• DDPs - employers, FE, HE and schools led by
  Sector Skills Councils
• Awarding bodies are developing diplomas in
  partnership with DDPs
• Diplomas will be accredited by the QCA

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Other education reforms

• A levels will be made more challenging through
• open-ended questions
• an A grade.
• The Extended Project (part of the Advanced
  Diploma) will be an option alongside A level
  courses.

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Timetabling

• Schools and colleges are forming partnerships to
  ensure that the needs of all students can be met
• A diploma student is likely to attend more than
  one institution as part of their weekly
  timetable.

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Diploma content

• The diplomas will combine academic and practical
  learning in a similar way to BTEC
• They will also include
• functional skills
• personal, learning and thinking skills
• a wide variety of options.

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Diplomas will be developed in 17 lines of
learning.

• For teaching from September 2008
• Construction and the Built Environment
• Creative and Media
• Engineering
• Information Technology
• Society, Health and Development

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Other subjects

• 2009
• Business, Administration and Finance
• Environmental and Land-based Studies
• Hair and Beauty Studies
• Hospitality
• Manufacturing and Product Design

• 2010
• Public Services
• Retail
• Sport and Leisure
• Travel and Tourism
• 2011
• Science
• Languages
• Humanities

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Different diplomas

• Foundation
• Higher
• Advanced
• Progression

• worth 5 grades D-G GCSE
• worth 7 grades A-C GCSE
• worth 3.5 A-levels
• maximum 420 UCAS points
• worth 2 A-levels
• aimed at those who cannot complete a whole
  Advanced Diploma

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Components

• Principal learning
• Generic learning
• Additional and/or specialist learning

• related to sector title
• functional skills - English, maths and ICT
• employability skills
• extended project
• 10 days' work experience
• allows student to specialise

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Assessment

• each of the components are qualifications in
  their own right
• overall grade calculated from principal learning
  and project
• must fulfil the requirements of other parts of
  the course

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The Advanced Creative and Media Diploma

• Four core themes
• 1 creativity in context
• 2 thinking and working creatively
• 3 principles, processes and practice
• 4 creative businesses and enterprise

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Principal learning

• Six units
• Capture
• Show
• Interaction
• Commission
• Evaluation
• Investigation

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Personal, learning and thinking skills

• independent enquiry
• creative thinking
• reflective learning
• team working
• self-management
• effective participation

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Additional and specialist learning

• Accredited qualifications at the same level as,
  or one above, the Diploma.
• Additional - qualifications from other sectors
• Specialist - qualifications from the same sector
• It may include
• qualifications available to those not taking the
  Diploma
• qualifications specifically developed to be part
  of the Diploma.

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The future of the diplomas

• 2013 government review of all 14-19
  qualifications including A levels.
• General concern that diplomas are seen as
  second-best vocational qualifications for the
  less academically able.
• Schools have concerns over
• complexity of the diplomas
• timetabling students on different sites
• availability of work placements.

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