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Are we ready for the Green Economy Edexcel
Perspective
John Fincham
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Training from Edexcel
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History 2005/2006 Awareness raising

• London Sustainability Exchange an audit of
  colleges around London
• Interview principals/heads of curriculum about
  sustainability in the curriculum and their
  college sustainability plans
• Results were that there were few units in courses
  with the title of sustainability eg construction
  no sustainability qualifications and not many
  principals/facility managers implementing
  sustainability measures or aware that they were
  doing so
• No real progress at Edexcel at this time on
  sustainability courses started to raise
  awareness

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Need for Sustainability in the curriculum

• Integration into all courses
• Sector Skills Councils approval (government
  pressure vocational courses) work with Cogent,
  SEMTA, Construction Skills etc
• Need for vocationally related sustainability
  courses to meet the needs of employers
• FE colleges/schools started to contact Edexcel
  about four/five years ago for courses that
  concentrated on different aspects of
  sustainability and jobs in sustainability for
  example - Sussex had a consortium of schools,
  South Stafford FE College, Cambridge FE College,
  City and Islington College etc

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Developments Sustainability Courses

• BTEC Sustainability Skills suites of
  qualifications at Entry Level, Level 1 and Level
  2 42 units
• BTEC National Suite of qualifications in
  Environmental Sustainability 27 units
• Worked with Cogent on their Sustainability Skills
  suite of qualifications QCF readiness
• GCE Chemistry section on Green Chemistry
  insistence by the RSC to include otherwise no
  support
• Sustainability units in a large number of
  vocationally related qualifications

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Delivery and Assessment

• 100 internal assessment vocationally related
  assignment/ project driven criterion
  referenced learners provide evidence BTEC
  approach to enable learners to gain ownership and
  develop as independent learners

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Support Materials

• Edexcel website large number of assignments
  working with British Gas, Woodland Trust, Water
  Aid etc
• GCE AS equivalent materials available soon based
  on project within the BTEC National in
  Environmental Sustainability

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Edexcel Curriculum

• Good Awareness in Qualification Development and
  many Business Managers
• Sustainability courses one of the fastest growing
  suites dedicated staff
• Still require a rationale for each new
  qualification projected number of learners
• Edexcel/Pearson Stand

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Training from Edexcel