Diplomas

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Choice and Design The New Curriculum for 11-19
Year Olds
Diplomas
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14-19 reform programme
The Diploma
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14-19 qualifications
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The Diplomas First Teaching
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Where are we now?

• Progression

Develop Line of Learning statement
Develop Line of Learning criteria
Develop and accredit new quals
Prepare to teach
Teach and learn
Assess learning
Award Diploma and constituent quals
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What are the benefits of doing a Diploma?

• By combining practical and academic study,
  students will have a learning experience that
  combines the best of both worlds.
• Opportunity to learn outside the classroom,
  seeing how what they learn at school or college
  is applied in the wider world.
• Learning about a broad employment sector, such as
  IT or the creative industries, will put students
  in a strong position to make decisions about
  their future career.
• Acquiring a range of vital skills that employers
  want such as using maths and IT and working on
  projects.
• Acquiring the knowledge, understanding and skills
  to go on to college or university.
• Can be combined with GCSEs, A levels and
  vocational qualifications giving students real
  flexibility in their education.

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Choice and Design The New Curriculum for 11-19
Year Olds
Diploma Development Partnership Perspective
Diploma purpose, features and benefits
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Purpose

• Provide a programme of theoretical and applied
  learning
• Gives opportunities to practice and acquire
  essential functional skills
• Enables individuals to acquire relevant personal,
  learning and thinking skills
• Offer progression to other Diplomas, to transfer
  laterally and progress to further training,
  apprenticeships and education
• Aid effective transition to FE, work based
  learning or HE and to adult and working life
• Provide a motivating learning experience

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Features

• Designed by employers and other relevant sector
  stakeholders
• Thematic approach spanning whole industry sector
• Capable of providing pathways for a broad range
  of learners
• Applied nature of delivery
• Personal learning and thinking skills
• Projects
• Additional and specialist learning
• Employer involvement with delivery

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Benefits

• Genuine high quality alternative to the
  narrowness of GCE provide a more suitable and
  stimulating pathway for brighter students
• Motivating learning experience leading to
  increased retention and attainment of young
  people in school or college
• Learners will be highly-functioning, and better
  prepared for both employment and further or
  higher education
• Focus on the skills and attributes most valued by
  both employers and HE institutions Generic
  Skills