Levelling Get Set'Go

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Levelling Get Set.Go!

• Ann Petrie
• Stephen McGregor
• Chris Simpson

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Fife and Tayside Wider Access Forum
 
TRANSITIONS
LIFT - OFF
Pre-Access in Communities Project
SCQF in Communities Project
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Pre-access Project

• Aims to engage traditionally under-represented
  groups in learning
• These include individuals living in local
  authority ROA areas or Scottish Executive zones
  of multiple deprivation, those excluded due to
  rurality or long term unemployment or who come
  from minority ethnic groups and/or have a
  disability

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Pre-access in Practice

• In each of the four local authority areas in Fife
  and Tayside a programme of pre-access courses are
  developed by partners for adults to create a wide
  range of second chance opportunities for
  individuals returning to, or taking their first
  steps from community learning into more advanced
  study or employment

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Pre-access Characteristics

• Delivery is focused on providing learning
  opportunities through partnership working to
  create a learner-centred experience widening
  options rather than narrowing them
• Pre-access is viewed as a potential first-step
  and partners are keen to support progression to
  other programmes of learning

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Pre-access in Communities in Angus
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Pre-access Programme in Angus 2006/7

• History Buffs Brechin
• Living and Working in Scotland Brechin
• The Developing Child Arbroath
• Moving Forward Arbroath
• Im UnemployedGet Me Out Of Here! Forfar
• Business Skills Arbroath
• GET SET.GO!

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SCQF in Communities Project

• SCQF Project Officer employed by Forum from
  October 2006
• One of the aims of the project is to look at the
  added value of using the Scottish Credit
  Qualifications Framework within the community
  learning sector

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Linking the Projects

• Pre-access aims to support the progression of
  individual learners
• SCQF is recognised as a tool that can be used to
  support progression by creating more informed
  learners

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Linking the Projects

• Partnership delivery of pre-access provides an
  enhanced experience for the learner, but creates
  difficulties for partners constructing a course
• The SCQF can be used as a guidance tool for
  partners working in different institutions/organis
  ations to pitch material consistently for the
  learner

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Linking the Projects

• Learners engaging with pre-access may lack
  confidence
• The SCQF can be used to build confidence
• Finally the SCQF could act as an identifier for
  other practitioners trying to ascertain what
  level individuals have been working at who have
  been involved in informal learning such as
  pre-access

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Piloting Get Set.Go!

• These potential advantages led to the pre-access
  sub-group in Angus taking the decision to
  approach colleagues involved in the delivery of
  Get SetGo to pilot the SCQF on this course

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Partners

• Angus College Stephen McGregor, Chris Simpson
• Angus Council Gavin Brebner
• Volunteer Centre Angus Vikki Bunce
• University of Abertay Ray Lloyd
• Careers Scotland Chris Tait

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Get SetGo!

• Meeting held between partners to develop
  programme
• Second meeting agreed to explore the SCQF

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Levelling Get SetGo!

• Time constraints led to the decision to
  notionally level this pilot rather than pursuing
  a formal levelling process
• Due to the initial complexity of the process it
  was agreed that no attempt would be made to
  credit-rate the course

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Levelling Get SetGo!

• Learning outcomes agreed by partners
• Method of evaluation agreed
• Notional level of course established

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Levelling Get SetGo!
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Desired Outcomes

• That participants on Get SetGo! will be
  empowered by knowing what level they operated at
  during the course and they will be able to
  compare this achievement on the SCQF to other
  Scottish qualifications

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How will we know if it was worth it?

• Partners have agreed to measure the distance
  travelled by learners qualitatively
• The number who progress to other learning
  opportunities and particularly more advanced
  programmes

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Benefit to partners?
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Thank you for listening
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• For information
• Transitions or Pre-access Project
• Ann Petrie a.petrie_at_dundee.ac.uk
• SCQF in Communities Project
• Fiona Williams williamsf_at_angus.gov.uk
• Get SetGo!
• Stephen McGregor