Marta

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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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Marta Higher Diploma in IT
additional and specialist learning 180 GLH
principal learning 420 GLH
generic learning 200 GLH
mandatory units
functional skills (80 LH)
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

• The Potential of Technology
• Exploring Organisations
• Effective Communication
• Skills for Innovation
• Technology Systems
• Multimedia
• Managing Projects

project (60 GLH)
minimum 10 days work experience
personal, learning and thinking skills (60 GLH)
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General KS4 courses
Project
Work experience
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.
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
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 ASL
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