The Queensland Certificate of Education facts and fiction

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The Queensland Certificate of Educationfacts
and fiction
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Focus of todays presentation

• To help better understand the Queensland
  Certificate of Education

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Your presenter

• Ian Cronk
• Manager
• Certification Unit
• Queensland Studies Authority
• Telephone [phone]
• Email qce_at_qsa.qld.edu.au

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Overview

• QCE facts
• 2. Learnings from 2008
• QCE fiction
• Questions and close

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QCE facts
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Fact 1

• The Queensland Certificate of Education or QCE is
  a new senior secondary qualification
• It is a school based qualification
• The QCE is awarded to students at the completion
  of the senior phase of learning (usually at the
  end of Year 12)

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Fact 2

• The QCE offers flexibility in what is learnt
  as well as where and when the learning occurs

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Fact 3

• The QCE is awarded to students only if their
  senior studies represent
• a significant amount of learning(20 credits)
• a set standard of achievement(at least a pass or
  sound)
• in a set pattern(At least 12 core from completed
  courses)
• meet literacy numeracy requirements(At least a
  pass or Sound in English and Maths C in QCS
  test)

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Fact 4

• Different types of learning can contribute to
  the QCE
• Core
• Preparatory
• Enrichment
• Advanced

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Fact 5

• At least 1 credit must come from

• Core studies
• whilst enrolled at a school

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Fact 6

• When a student is registered by the school they
  attend, QSA opens their Learning Account
• The Learning Account records the details of
  learning and results of completed studies

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Fact 7

• Students should access their Learning Account
  through the Career Information Service (CIS)
• Students require a learner unique identifier
  (LUI) and password to access their information
  online

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www.cis.qsa.qld.edu.au
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Fact 8

• Students receive credit for completed courses of
  study
• and
• may receive credit
• for the partial completion of courses

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Fact 9

• Students can receive up to
• 2 conceded semesters for
• partially completed
• Authority and Authority registered subjects
• exited at a Limited Level of Achievement

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Fact 10

• Credit transfer for
• intrastate, interstate and overseas transfers
• occurs when students move from one learning
  provider to another part way through their senior
  schooling

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Fact 11

• Students transferring to Queensland from
  interstate or overseas
• must complete at least their final semester of
  senior schooling in Queensland
• They will also need to apply for Relaxation of
  completed Core requirement
• (12 credits from completed courses)

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Fact 12a

• Relaxation of completed Core requirements for QLD
  students
• Students enrolment change in Authority and
  Authority registered subjects
• Mathematics B to Mathematics A
• Mathematics A to Prevocational Mathematics
• Mathematics B to Prevocational Mathematics
• English to English Communication

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Fact 12b

• Relaxation of completed Core requirements for QLD
  students
• Students
• fit into one or more of the subject changes
  outlined for fact 12a
• must have changed subjects at the end of the
  first or second semester
• must have attained a Limited Achievement or
  higher in the initial subject
• must attain an Exit Level of Achievement of
  Sound or higher in the final subject

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Fact 13

• Notional Sound for literacy and numeracy in
  Authority and Authority registered subjects
• In subjects
• English, English Extension, English Communication
  and English for ESL Learners
• Mathematics A, Mathematics B, Mathematics C and
  Prevocational Mathematics
• If a student exits with a Limited or Very Limited
  Level of Achievement, literacy or numeracy
  requirements are deemed to have been met if a
  single semester is assessed as Notional Sound

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Fact 14

• Recognised studies
• Awards and certificates
• International learning programs
• School based courses (non-QSA)
• Structured community learning
• Structured workplace learning
• VET courses (accredited non-qualification VET)

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Your questions
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Learnings from 2008
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QCE 2008

• Learners registered in Year 10, 2006 56 890
• Completed Year 12 2008..... 42 380 (incl. 869
  visa)
• QCEs awarded 31 200 (appprox)
  (74 approx)
• Of approx 11 200 students who did not receive a
  QCE at exit from Year 12,
• About 92 have not yet acquired 20 credits.
• The rest had 20 credits or more but
• did not meet completed Core requirements
• Or
• Did not meet literacy or numeracy requirement

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Application for Verification or Review of
Information
Received from students approx 1260 Errors,
amendments and updates by schools - approx
1000 Concerns reported by schools - approx 1500
(non school errors) Reported by student school
approx 220
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Your questions
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QCE fiction
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Fiction 1

• Every student will receive the QCE
• No!
• The student must
• have a learning account opened with the
  Queensland Studies Authority (QSA)
• complete 20 credits in contributing studies at
  the required standard and in a required pattern
  of learning
• meet literacy and numeracy requirements.

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Fiction 2

• Everything a student studies will contribute
  towards the QCE
• No!
• Studies not recognised by the QSA do not
  contribute to the QCE
• Some studies may appear in the Learning Account
  but not be certificated

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Fiction 3

• If students dont complete 3 Authority or
  Authority registered subjects over 4 semesters,
  they are ineligible for the QCE
• No!
• A wide range of programs are core,eg. VET cert
  II, III
• Relaxation of Core requirements

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Fiction 4

• The more credits students bank towards the QCE,
  the better!
• No!
• Once students gain 20 credits and meet
  requirements, additional credits are superfluous
  to this qualification.
• So avoid credit lust but by all means continue
  to study that which is useful for educational and
  developmental reasons.

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Fiction 5

• The QCE is the same as an OP
• No!
• The QCE is Queensland's senior learning
  qualification about learning standards
• The OP is used to rank QLD. students for entrance
  to courses at universities, TAFE institutes and
  other tertiary institutions.

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Fiction 6

• If a student gains an OP, they will receive the
  QCE
• No!
• A student could gain an OP1 and not be eligible
  for the QCE if, for example, they had studied no
  maths and so did not meet the numeracy
  requirement.

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Fiction 7

• The school is responsible for every aspect of
  the QCE
• No!

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Fiction 8

• Its difficult for schools to know how their
  students are progressing or about the QCE
• No!
• (SET) Planning
• Provisional statements from QSA sent to schools
  in July and October each year
• The learning account records enrolments and
  results
• QCE Handbook, Legislative Guidelines for the QCE,
  relevant QSA Memos, QCE Planner, attending QCE
  seminars available on the QSA website

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Fiction 9

• Students and their parents cant understand the
  QCE
• No!
• CIS Planner helps learners/parents access the
  learning account and predict the possible
  outcomes of courses of study
• QCE Handbook, Legislative Guidelines for the QCE,
  relevant QSA Memos, QCE Planner, attending QCE
  seminars available on the QSA website

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Fiction 10

• Students who complete Year 12 without achieving
  the QCE have failed!!
• No!
• complete year 12 without achieving a learning
  account open for a further seven years, a total
  of nine years.
• After Year 12, any QCE-related learning can still
  be recorded in the learning account
• When eligible for the QCE, the QSA will issue the
  certificate, in the following July or December.

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Fiction 11

• First aid courses, work experience and dance
  classes all contribute to the QCE
• No!
• list of recognised studies available on the QSA
  website

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Fiction 12

• Students can be issued with the QCE at any time,
  as soon as they become eligible
• No!
• delivered twice per year, July December
• If eligible for a QCE during Year 12, awarded at
  the end of that year (as long as the student
  finishes Year 12)
• eligible in the following year, then can apply to
  the QSA and receive their QCE in the July or
  December

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Your questions
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