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Skills for WorkFuture Developments
Skills for WorkFuture Developments
January 2008
Planning future developmentsPlanning 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 SQA’s wider portfolio funding priorities
Courses available from August 2007 (13)Courses available from August 2007 (13)
Access 3 (1)
Intermediate 1 (7)
Intermediate 2 (4)
Higher (1)
Courses available from August 2007 (13)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
Courses available from August 2008 (6)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
Courses available from August 2008 (19)Courses available from August 2008 (19)
Access 3 (1)
Intermediate 1 (8)
Intermediate 2 (9)
Higher (1)
Choice at each levelChoice 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
ProgressionProgression
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
Areas under consideration for 2009Areas under consideration for 2009
Digital Media Retail Beauty Care Automotive Business/Administration Creative/expressive arts Science Technician Medical Health Professions Access
Implementation support for August 2008Implementation 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
A New Approach to A New Approach to
Quality Assurance Quality Assurance
Donald PatersonDonald Paterson
Project Manager - NQPDProject Manager - NQPD
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
Innovative delivery and Innovative delivery and assessment approaches have assessment approaches have presented an exciting presented an exciting opportunity to review our opportunity to review our thinking about the thinking about the internal internal and and externalexternal quality assurance of quality assurance of Skills for Work CoursesSkills for Work Courses
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
In SfW courses it is the In SfW courses it is the practical practical experientialexperiential processes that are important processes that are important … not always the … not always the end end products products
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
A A partnershippartnership approach to approach to quality assurance ……quality assurance ……
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
A partnership between SQA A partnership between SQA and regionally supported and regionally supported centres - centres - working togetherworking together to to agree appropriate standards agree appropriate standards and interpretation of and interpretation of candidate performance candidate performance
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
The best people to quality The best people to quality assure experiential assure experiential assessment processes are the assessment processes are the people closest to them people closest to them
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
Local practitioners are best Local practitioners are best placed to form that important placed to form that important consensusconsensus of opinion that of opinion that appropriate standards are appropriate standards are being applied, and being applied, and consistently consistently met met
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
Local Local internal verifiersinternal verifiers can be can be present during the experiential present during the experiential delivery of Skills for Work delivery of Skills for Work courses …. observing the courses …. observing the important important practicalpractical candidate candidate experiences at the centre of all experiences at the centre of all Skills for Work coursesSkills for Work courses
The Highland OpportunityThe Highland Opportunity
Regional quality assurance Regional quality assurance modelmodel
An ongoing An ongoing processprocess
Pilot Pilot
