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Conference Report: Building and Delivering the 14-19 Specialised Diplomas, Tuesday 10th October 2006, Barbican Centre, London
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The day set out to help the development of partnership strategies for schools, colleges and employers. It succeeded only partly. Much of the input was simply relaying what is already available on the DfES and QCA websites-useful reinforcement but not new.

 

The documents about all aspects of the diplomas are on file at CES and form a useful resource about not only 14-19 innovation but vocational qualifications already available (EdExcel were a sponsor of the conference). The DfES website ’14-19 Gateway’ is also worth consulting regularly.

 

One of our schools and one Catholic sixth-form college sent delegates. Saint John Houghton Catholic School in Derbyshire was mentioned in dispatches as a partner in the successful Ilkeston partnership.

 

Some important points were:

·        UK Participation rates at 17 are still well below OECD averages and amongst the worst in Europe

·        Staying on rates post-16 are static despite improved GCSE performance

·        The apparent irreversibility of failure at 16 “if at first you don’t succeed, you don’t succeed”!

·        There will probably be a 10% decline in the 14-19 population by 2020, most striking in the North and Midlands

·        KS3 needs to be reformed to prepare for 14-19 changes

·        GCSE and A Level are to remain as free-standing qualifications

·        The target of 50,000 pupils in consortia passing through the Gateway first time is almost certain to be exceeded, but it is still likely that a fairly small minority of pupils will be involved in diplomas from the start. The word ‘pilot’ is not used, but probably describes the likely outcome

·        The gateway will re-open at various stages between 2007-12

·        Some LAs are already planning jointly across LA boundaries

·        E-learning is expected to have an important role as part of pupils’ learning (could be significant where distances between institutions are great)

·        The need for support for travel between institutions was stressed. There is a pressure on LAs to support where travel is essential to ensure pupils’ entitlement (this topic was a great concern for many delegates, especially those from rural areas).

 

 

Peter Irvine, Education Consultant

November 2006
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