Transforming education for 1419 year olds

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Four key pathways
GCSEs, A Levels
The Diploma
Apprenticeships
Functional Skills
Foundation Learning Tier Progression Pathways
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Diplomas

• Developing and delivering the Diploma programme
  is central to the qualification offer.
• Offers a once in a generation opportunity to
  tackle the historic divide between academic and
  vocational learning.
• A flexible structure which allows space for young
  people to choose options.
• Expansion of the Diploma programme in order to
  develop 3 new diplomas in Science, Humanities and
  Languages in 2011.
• Introduction of an entitlement to all 17 Diplomas
  for 16 18 year old learners from 2013.

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What does a Diploma look like?

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Diploma grading scale
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Qualification model components
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Marking and grading
All components are required to achieve Diploma
grade
B
B
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Curriculum design examples

• the Diploma within the KS4 curriculum
• progression through the Diploma
• whole school approach

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Foundation Diploma in construction and the built
environment
Qualification model components
600 guided learning hours (GLH)
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Higher Diploma in society, health and development
Qualification model components
800 guided learning hours (GLH)
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Advanced Diploma in creative and media
Qualification model components
1080 guided learning hours (GLH)
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Diploma Progression

• Work is taking place with the DDPs and QCA, the
  HE sector and other key partners to identify
  clear pathways.
• The pathways will be used to help inform the
  development of appropriate information, advice
  and guidance material to help learners, providers
  and parents to understand which qualifications
  are best suited.

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Administration for complex qualifications
Administration for complex qualifications
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Certification and the transcript
Certification and the transcript
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Ian Information technology L2
Ian is a very able student, and has an interest
in technology, intelligence activities and
strategic computer games. He would like to get a
solid grounding in ICT skills, so that he can
later pursue his interest in military
intelligence, or computer game design. He
attends a Catholic technology college in
Darlington. Learning at KS4 - Level 2 IT Diploma,
(including 1.5 GCSEs as ASL) and 3 other
GCSEs Work experience placement at Darlington
College at Catterick garrison, learning about the
Torch Hub and IT training for military
personnel Project designing teaching aid
animated presentations in Macromedia Flash to be
used for KS3 science lessons, which were put up
on the school website.
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Post 16 learning Ian will be progressing to the
level 3 Diploma in IT, with GCE AS mathematics
and GCE AS Spanish as ASL. He thinks he will
probably carry on with mathematics to A2, and
would like to study some aspect of IT or computer
science at university, but has not decided how he
would like to specialise.
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Chyou Engineering L3

• Chyou is a very able student. She attends a
  girls' grammar school. She wants to become an
  archaeologist, but her parents want her to
  specialise in something more scientific
  (researcher, engineer), and have urged her to
  take courses that keep her options open.
• Diploma Choices
• Additional/Specialist Learning GCE A level in
  Physics and GCE AS level in Ancient History
• Work Experience A placement with a public body
  that protects historic sites, shadowing a
  Regional Science Advisor, and assisting her
  colleagues in the engineering sector with their
  consulting work for this organisation.
• Extended Project An investigation with the
  title Reconstructing History The Lighthouse at
  Alexandria, detailing the history and
  archaeology of the structure, and including plans
  for how it might be rebuilt using current
  engineering techniques and appropriate materials.

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• Progression Route
• Chyou does not want to choose between
  engineering and archaeology but cannot find a
  higher education course that allows her to
  combine the disciplines to her satisfaction as an
  undergraduate. She is thinking instead of
  pursuing a Joint Honours Degree in Physics and
  Archaeology. She hopes to be able to request to
  study modules from the Engineering course during
  her first year.

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Lauren
Lauren is a key stage 4 student taking the
Foundation Diploma. Lauren is quiet and a bit
shy. She has always enjoyed art and design and
technology lessons and since she was given a
digital camera for her 14th birthday she has
photographed anything that moves. The Foundation
Diploma in creative and media at key stage 4
gives her the opportunity to explore her
new-found passion while learning about the
creative and media world. She wants to understand
better the way ICT and photography work together.
Lauren attends a specialist language college
which has links with her local church. In her
spare time, she frequently volunteers within her
local community.
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Lauren Foundation Diploma in creative and media
ASL 120 GLH
City Guilds Level 1 Award in Darkroom Printing
(30 GLH) Level 2 award in Photo Image
Presentation (30GLH) Art and design GCSE (short
course) (60 GLH)
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General KS4 courses
Work experience
Project
Two week placement (and some isolated Saturdays
subsequently) with a photographer where the bulk
of commissions are for family portraits, weddings
and passport photos. Sometimes old negatives or
movie footage are brought in for transposing
onto a CD or DVD and Lauren learnt about the
processes involved. She was also able to act as
receptionist from time to time, taking bookings
and welcoming clients. Later on, she shadowed the
senior partner at two weddings where she was
permitted to make suggestions about the
composition of some group portraits.
Lauren decided that she would like to make her
own film and needed to find a suitable context.
Early in the course, she learnt about a plan to
start a childrens class locally to teach
children circus skills. She decided to
investigate the arguments for using people as
opposed to animals in circuses and produced a
short animated film sequence to convey her ideas.

English GCSE Maths GCSE Science GCSE Religious
Education GCSE (short course) ASDAN certificate
in community volunteering Level 1 certificate in
French Drama GCSE
Progression route Lauren has been able to pursue
her interest in photography whilst developing her
inter-personal and social skills. Her confidence
has massively increased over the two years and
she now wants to take a BTEC Certificate in
Photography together with ICT and business
studies GCSE. She is also enthused by moving
pictures and thinks that film studies would be
something that she would like to know more about
for the future.
AND... principal learning functional skills
personal, learning and thinking skills
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Marta
Marta is a student in key stage 4 taking the
Higher Diploma. For as long as she can remember
her favourite school subject has always been ICT,
so she jumped at the chance to do the Higher
Diploma in IT. It allowed her to concentrate on
what she enjoyed most. She does not want to
continue in full-time education after 16, so she
decides to take an apprenticeship which will
allow her to continue learning about IT. She
does not yet have a fixed idea about what sort of
IT-related career she will eventually have, but
she knows that an apprenticeship will provide her
with a wide range of career options.
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Progression Illustration Marta Higher Diploma in
IT
additional and/or specialist learning 180 GLH
Level 2 Diploma in ICT Systems Support (210
GLH) ASL may exceed the GLH requirement by up
to 50 for an individual qualification listed
within the Diploma catalogues
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General KS4 courses
Project
Work experience
Marta worked for two and a half weeks in the
research centre of a large telecoms company. She
provided general administrative assistance to a
research team developing the technology to call
out the emergency services automatically when
elderly people who live alone need help but
cannot reach a telephone.
English GCSE Maths GCSE Science GCSE Additional
Science GCSE
Martas project was about website design because
she was considering the possibility of a career
as a website designer. She chose to investigate
the problem of why web pages display differently
in different types of browsers. She researched
the display features of the most popular browsers
and experimented with some HTML code she had
written to see what display errors occurred and
how they could be overcome by changing the coding
in various ways. She presented her project in
the form of a website which provided advice on
how to create web pages which display correctly
in most types of browsers.
Progression route Marta has taken a IT and
Telecoms Professional Apprenticeship, and is
working in the IT department of a large insurance
companys head offices. She is part of a team
which manages the offices intranet and deals
with users computer problems.
AND... principal learning functional skills
personal, learning and thinking skills
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By 2015 every young person will be in some form
of education or training until the age of 18. But
lets be absolutely clear, this is not about
forcing young people who want to work while they
train to stay at school. The Education and Skills
Bill will galvanise the entire system, changing
expectations so that young people stay on in
learning beyond 16, not just because it is
compulsory but because they can see the benefits.
Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children,
Schools and Families 29 November 2007