Skills for Work Future Developments

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Skills for WorkFuture Developments
January 2008
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Planning future developments

• Aims
• respond to Curriculum for Excellence
• provide choice from Access to Higher
• respond to stakeholder and market needs
• Context
• centre capacity to deliver
• SQA capacity to develop
• SQAs wider portfolio
• funding priorities

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Courses available from August 2007 (13)

• Access 3 (1)
• Intermediate 1 (7)
• Intermediate 2 (4)
• Higher (1)

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Courses available from August 2007 (13)

• Access 3
• Practical Experiences Construction and
  Engineering
• Intermediate 1
• Construction Crafts
• Early Education and Childcare
• Engineering
• Hairdressing
• Hospitality
• Rural Skills
• Sport and Recreation
• Intermediate 2
• Construction Crafts
• Early Education and Childcare
• Financial Services
• Sport and Recreation
• Higher
• Health and Social Care

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Courses available from August 2008 (6)

• Engineering Intermediate 2
• Energy Intermediate 2
• Hairdressing Intermediate 2
• Hospitality Intermediate 2
• Retailing Intermediate 2
• Uniformed and Emergency Services Intermediate 1

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Courses available from August 2008 (19)

• Access 3 (1)
• Intermediate 1 (8)
• Intermediate 2 (9)
• Higher (1)

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Choice at each level

• Monitor Higher with a view to extending choice
• Develop more Access 3 broad-based Courses
• Scope existing provision at Access 2
• Continue to build choice at Intermediate levels

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Progression

• No assumption in planning that each Course will
  be developed at different levels
• Where there is an established need, different
  levels in same Skills for Work Course will be
  considered
• All Skills for Work Courses may enhance
  progression to
• Further Education - Group Awards
• Higher Education - Group Awards/Degrees
• employment/training

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Areas under consideration for 2009

• Digital Media
• Retail
• Beauty Care

• Automotive
• Business/Administration
• Creative/expressive arts
• Science Technician
• Medical Health Professions
• Access

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Implementation support for August 2008

• Update letter October 2007
• Summary Course information December 2007
• Publication of Courses April 2008
• Launch events April 2008
• NABs August 2008
• SFEU support packs August 2008
• SQA Subject Support Networks On-going
• Skill for Work website On-going

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A New Approach to Quality Assurance

• Donald Paterson
• Project Manager - NQPD

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The Highland Opportunity

• Innovative delivery and assessment approaches
  have presented an exciting opportunity to review
  our thinking about the internal and external
  quality assurance of Skills for Work Courses

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The Highland Opportunity

• In SfW courses it is the practical experiential
  processes that are important not always the end
  products

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The Highland Opportunity

• A partnership approach to quality assurance

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The Highland Opportunity

• A partnership between SQA and regionally
  supported centres - working together to agree
  appropriate standards and interpretation of
  candidate performance

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The Highland Opportunity

• The best people to quality assure experiential
  assessment processes are the people closest to
  them

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The Highland Opportunity

• Local practitioners are best placed to form that
  important consensus of opinion that appropriate
  standards are being applied, and consistently met

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The Highland Opportunity

• Local internal verifiers can be present during
  the experiential delivery of Skills for Work
  courses . observing the important practical
  candidate experiences at the centre of all Skills
  for Work courses

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The Highland Opportunity

• Regional quality assurance model
• An ongoing process
• Pilot

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