Vicky Yearsley

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The future of qualifications in Health

• Vicky Yearsley
• Programme Manager (Qualifications)
• Standards Qualifications Directorate

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Two Strategies

• The Sector Qualification Strategy
• Higher Education Strategy

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One Vision

• Integrated approach across all levels
• Qualifications which support competence based
  workforce design
• A demand-led education system, designed by
  employers
• Incorporate Learning Design Principles

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Learning Design Principles
Identify role
Describe it in language of NOS
Design packages of learning
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Educational pathways

• the developments that allow an individual to be
  able to build on their education and training
  with a clear progression route or path. This
  might be up academic levels or increasing breath
  of knowledge at the same academic level.

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Educational pathways
To support roles and development of these roles
in the work place along an educational path.
Life's path rarely straight education should
mirror and support this.
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QCF The Big Opportunity

• Credit based framework
• All academic levels
• England, Wales and N Ireland
• Re-development of all NVQs and VRQs by Dec 2010
• Drive a change in funding model

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QCF The Big Opportunity

• The digital era
• Potential to meet needs as described by employers
• Time to re-think rather just re-produce

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SQS Action Plans

• 2009-2011
• Steps to achieving the vision
• NVQs VRQs into framework of units
• Underpinning knowledge units
• Occupational competence units
• Rules of combination

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How?

• In partnership
• Using the learning design principles
• SSC, regulators, employers, professional
  representation, awarding bodies
• Prioritised timeline based on employer feedback