The AAT Diploma Pathway and NVQSVQ improvements

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Improving vocational qualifications

• The AAT Diploma Pathway and NVQ/SVQ improvements
  
• our new approach

Clare Morley AAT Director of Education
Training
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NVQ/SVQ Problems

• NVQ/SVQ not suitable for many
• Duplicated assessment
• No professional ethics
• Workplace evidence
• Bureaucracy for centres
• Need a viable alternative

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AAT strategy
High quality, but more attractive accessible
competence-based option

• Streamlined assessment
• Professional ethics unit
• Work-based not workplace
• Fit for purpose delivery
• Long-term viability (funding climate)

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Diploma pathway structure

• 3 levels
• Certificate in Accounting
• Advanced Certificate in Accounting
• Diploma in Accounting
• Each level a qualification

Full completion
AAT Accounting Qualification
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Maintaining quality

• Fully competence-based
• Same core standards
• Equally rigorous quality assurance
• Same outcome progression
• Welcomed by employers

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Offering a non-funded qualification

• Less employer involvement ? worth higher cost
• Non-LSC funded markets
• (e.g. fast track, distance learning)
• Cost savings from streamlining

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Benefits for your college

• Assess competence more simply
• Professional ethics bonus
• New markets income
• Full AAT support

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Next steps

• Diploma pathway brochure
• Full details at
• www.aat.org.uk/diploma
• Arrange an AAT visit
• Simple approval process

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NVQ/SVQ improvements

• Simulations
• Marketing support
• On-line services
• E-assessment

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Simulations

• Suitable for accountancy environment
• Advantages include holistic (not atomised)
  approach, confidentiality, practicality, full
  coverage of standards, consistency
• High quality simulations
• On-line ordering
• Supplementary question bank
• Coverage of additional units

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Marketing support

• Becoming more proactive
• Event support AAT rep, materials, posters etc
• We want to know what you want from us

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On-line services
Coming soon
Skills test reporting
Maybe coming
Supplying computerised accounting software for
skills tests
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E-assessment

• About to pilot an e-simulation
• Taking a cautious approach due to software
  limitations
• E-exams on demand, starting with Certificate
  level exam

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Thank you for your time
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