14-19 Learning Networks Briefing on CQFW
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14-19 Learning NetworksBriefing on CQFW
Adrian Sheehan, Gavin Thomas, Katy Burnsand Lynne Thomas
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Current Challenges for Partnerships • Building on existing good practice in partnerships• Implementing 14-19 Learning Pathways and the
Learning and Skills (Wales) Measure 2009• Planning the local curricula for 14 to 16 and 16 to
18 year olds through collaboration• Achieving efficiency and effectiveness in the local
delivery of 14-19 provision• Raising standards and achieving consistently high
quality
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Curriculum Challenges in Wales• 14-19 Learning Pathways• The Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification • Essential Skills Wales• The Reform of Vocational Qualifications
CQFW / QCF• Pathways to Apprenticeships• Reaching Higher: Widening Access to HE;
Foundation Degrees.
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The Credit & Qualification Framework for Wales (CQFW)
• New curriculum framework for Wales • Part of the wider UK vocational reform
programme • Internationally recognised standards and
processes linked to a European Qualifications Framework
• A framework to deliver flexibility, choice and progression
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Qualifications and Curriculum Framework (QCF)• The new vocational Framework for creating and
accrediting qualifications in England, Northern Ireland and Wales
• Recognising achievement through the award of credit for units and qualifications
• Enabling learners to build up qualifications bit by bit• Helping learners achieve skills and qualifications that
employers need• Ensuring that vocational qualifications are more
responsive to the needs of employers and learners.
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CQFW
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CQFW includes
• Higher Education (HE) units and qualifications from Level 4 up to Level 8
• Quality Assured Lifelong Learning (QALL) learning and training units designed to meet specific needs
• Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF) units and qualifications from Entry level to Level 3.
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CQFW embraces
• All learning programmes including taught courses, distance learning, work related learning, community related learning and other education / training activities
• All providers including schools, colleges, work-based trainers, community-based providers, industry, voluntary and other bodies offering learning or training
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QCF Architecture
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School / College / WBL
Awarding organisationsQualification
How will QCF work?(Source: City and Guilds)
Banked credit
Banked credit
Banked credit
New creditNew credit
New credit
New credit
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Rules of combination
• Majority of 14-19 learners will still complete qualifications defined in the rules of combination
• The combination of units to complete a qualification• List mandatory and optional units, plus any other
QCF qualifications recognised by the regulatory authorities (Ofqual, DCELLS, CCEA)
• Designed by AOs and SSCs / SSBs• Credit can come from more than one level with
more than 50% at the qualification level• Specified exemptions
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Recognition of Prior Learning• Learners are entitled to have previous
qualifications, skills, experience and understanding formally recognised
• Easier to do this at unit level• Can minimise the duplication of training• Opportunity to fast track some learners• Models are being developed to fit different
circumstances
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Benefits & Opportunities• Formal recognition for all types of learning or
training – vocationally within QCF and other learning through QALL
• Flexible acquisition of qualifications through credit for smaller units of learning
• Opportunity to meet learners’ needs through more effective delivery arrangements involving partnerships
• Learning recognised within CQFW is consistent with UK and European standards
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What Needs to Change?• Put in place key strategies to successfully
implement CQFW at all levels • Achieve more effective collaboration among
providers• Develop and implement new systems, plans and
administrative support • Communicate consistently the details of CQFW• Ensure that the potential benefits for learners are
achieved• Be innovative and make efficiency gains
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What Areas are likely to be most affected?
• Curriculum and Assessment• Quality Assurance• Information Services • Information, Advice and Guidance• Partnership Arrangements• Communication and Employer
Engagement
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Curriculum & Assessment
• What are the main changes to the qualifications in each vocational area?
• Have you considered the guided learning hours of the qualifications, the content, the rules of combination, the assessment and grading?
• How will the learning partnership deliver these units and qualifications?
• How will they contribute to the local curricula offer?• Have you established mechanisms and processes
for the Recognition of Prior Learning
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Quality Assurance• Are quality assurance systems being modified to
meet the new regulatory requirements and the needs of Awarding Organisations?
• Are the quality implications of delivering a CQFW curriculum within partnerships being addressed?
• Are mapping and tracking and administration systems being put to facilitate the implementation of CQFW?
• How might the award of credit be reflected in performance measures?
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Challenges to Information Systems
• Investigating the capacity of MIS systems to deliver CQFW successfully
• Updating systems to exchange information with other CQFW stakeholders’ systems
• Reviewing their information systems in line with the LRS and LLWR systems to ensure the provision of accurate, reliable and timely data for managers
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Challenges to Learning Partnerships
• How does the 14-19 partnership plan to achieve the benefits of CQFW?
• What roles do the partners have in the implementation of CQFW?
• How does the partnership intend to communicate CQFW effectively to its staff, local employers, parents and learners?
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Information, Advice & Guidance
• Are all providers putting in place mechanisms to provide learners with the guidance, support and information needed to deliver CQFW?
• Are advice and guidance staff being trained and developed to provide the support that learners and others require to maximise opportunities under CQFW?
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Refreshments break
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What is the Learning Records Service (LRS)?
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• It is part of the Skills Funding Agency (formerly the Learning and Skills Council) which is responsible for all publicly funded adult skills training in England outside of higher education.
• The Skills Funding Agency is implementing the QCF across the post-19 FE and Skills system in England and collaborating with the devolved administrations to deliver QCF and the Personal Learning Record in Wales and Northern Ireland, supporting public and privately funded learning.
• The Learning Records Service was known as MIAP and the new name is designed to more accurately reflect what it does and provides.
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• A randomly generated ten digit number allocated to learners by learning providers.
• Allows learners to build a lifelong record of their learning participation and achievements, which they can access and choose to share.
• Being allocated to every person in education and training aged 14+ in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• More than 10.8 million learners already have a ULN.
• Over 6,000 providers – Learner Registration Bodies (LRBs) – are registered with the Service.
The Unique Learner NumberA lifelong number that is required to be shared
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• The PLR presents an electronic record of learners’ achievements which is securely accessed by learners and registered learning providers over the Internet.
• Qualifications and achievement data is recorded against individual ULNs.• It will become an individual’s lifelong record of qualifications and
achievement in education.• This year the PLR was made available on line to limited numbers of
providers and learners to test services and processes.• It is being rolled out to more providers now and PLR web services have
been introduced• Learners will be able to access their PLR themselves, as long as their ID
has been verified, and share it with third parties if they wish to do so.
The Personal Learning RecordAccess to the PLR is controlled by the Learner
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• Changes are being made to the PLR to support the additional services around credit accumulation and transfer for the QCF.
• Awarding organisations will be supplying achievement data for credit and qualifications in the QCF, which will be validated against accreditation data from the regulators and learner data held in the record.
• The Service will be providing products and support applications for the sector
• Enhanced functionality is being developed to support learning providers in delivering the QCF and help learners to identify routes to achievement, accumulate credit and build units towards qualifications.
Supporting delivery of the QCF
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What’s happening in Wales?• Over 133,250 learners in Wales have a ULN
• The ULN is the enabler for initiatives in the education sector including the Welsh Baccalaureate, QCF and CQFW.
• All FE Colleges in Wales are getting ULNs for learners from this September .
• ACL and WBL organisations in Wales are starting to use the service.
• A solution is being developed by DCELLS for schools in Wales to obtain ULNs using PLASC data.
• DCELLS is establishing proof of concept around importing Welsh learners’ award data into the PLR from schools and FE data bins.
• Access to the PLR by learners and IAG professionals will be embedded in wider services offered by Careers Wales Online.
• The ULN is not currently mandated in Wales but will be requested in the LLWR return for all WBL providers from September 2011.
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....09 / 2010…...…….....09 / 2011.................…09 / 2012……
The Learning Records ServiceSupporting Programmes and Partnerships in Wales
Careers Wales Online goes live with Welsh PLR
Pilot CQFW Electronic Learner Record
HE/ UCAS data transfer
More AOs and more awards data
Pilots of ULN for WBQ
Careers Wales 14-19 Pre 16 with UPN
ULN in WBL and FE with QCF
AOs updating data bins with QCF units
First QCF PLR available to the learner
Rollout of RITS, DAQW consolidated
Schools to get ULNs
New PS3 WBL Contract mandates ULN
Careers Wales supports 14-19 Measure Post16 with ULN
AOs updating data bins with more Awards
ULN replaces LLWR ULI?
Wales Awards Data Bin?
Link to HE Achievement Report?
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What about UK Higher Education? A HEFCE-JISC funded Pilot has just reported• A ULN field has been established in HESA and UCAS datasets.
• Around 6% of students from state-funded schools, FE and sixth form colleges are providing their ULN as part of the UCAS ‘Apply’ process.
• The ULN will allow UCAS to share verified qualification data for applicants avoiding data re-entry.
• HEIs are starting to use the LRS to assign ULNs to students (that don’t already have them).
• Over 40 HEIs are registered LRBs including Bangor and Glamorgan.
• DCELLS and HEFCW are considering a small scale pilot with Welsh HEIs.
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Contact Information
• Helpline Telephone: 0845 602 2589
• Opening hours: 8.00hrs – 20.00hrs Monday to Saturday
• e-mail: [email protected]
• Website: www.learningrecordsservice.org.uk
• Implementation Manager in Wales: Lynne Thomas [email protected] [email protected]
• LRS Project Manager in Wales: Gary Williams (DCELLS) [email protected]
• Learning Provider Register: www.ukrlp.co.uk
• Additional information and guidance material on WAG website
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