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Highly Commended: Nicholas Earl-Phillipps – V Cert Aspiration Awards

By Rachel Hopkins, Marketing Officer, Thursday 14 June 2018

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We’re delighted to announce that Nicholas Earl-Phillipps, a learner at Bitterne Park School has been highly commended in our V Cert Aspiration Awards. Nicholas has autism and an Education Health and Care Plan. Having been told by care and educational professionals at age 5 that Nicholas would probably never receive any formal education, his mother has seen Nicholas go on to achieve great things at his mainstream school, including achieving an NCFE V Cert in Food and Cookery.

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Farnborough Academy case study – V Cert Aspiration Awards

By Rachel Hopkins, Marketing Officer, Thursday 14 June 2018

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We’re delighted to announce that Farnborough Academy in Nottingham have been highly commended as part of our V Cert Aspiration Awards. The academy deliver a range of NCFE qualifications, including Food and Cookery, Creative Craft, Health and Fitness and Performance Skills, and were awarded the commendation for going above and beyond to help pupils exceed even their own expectations..

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V Cert Aspiration Awards – Pupil of the Year announced

By Rachel Hopkins, Marketing Officer, Wednesday 13 June 2018

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2018 marked our first V Cert Aspiration Awards, recognising achievements by pupils with big aspirations. The scheme was launched to recognise learners who are using V Certs to help them reach their goals and make positive improvements to their life.

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Are T Levels trained on the wrong target?

By Mick Fletcher, FE Policy Analyst, Monday 11 June 2018

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A great deal of attention has rightly been focussed on the long-awaited government response to the T Level consultation issued in November 2017. Much less notice has been taken of another document, also published by DfE in May and snappily titled ‘Post-16 education: highest level of achievement by age 25 (England)’. Yet this latter document contains much that is relevant to a technical education strategy and critically suggests that much of the focus of the current debate may be misdirected. It’s important to be clear that a technical education strategy should be about the development of technicians, not about boosting the numbers doing STEM subjects.   It’s an important distinction, though one that government refuses to make, which only makes implementation more confused.  The need for a strategy focussed on technician level occupations however was clearly laid out in the initial Sainsbury review and is backed up by figures from the report on achievement by age 25.  To quote that report directly,  “Just 4 per cent of the cohort achieved their highest qualification at level 4 or level 5, compared with 26 per cent for level 3 and 27 per cent for level 6”.

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A million pieces to a million pounds

By Josh Dixon, Managing Director, YourCode Recruitment Group, Tuesday 29 May 2018

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4 years ago, I left my second high school with no qualifications, a lack of direction and no ambition. Fast track 4 years later to May 2018, I’m now the Founding Investor and Director of Weeduu.co and YourCode Recruitment Group. The last few years have been interesting for me, and now understanding the various routes within education and how some students in the mainstream system can be neglected, I realise how lucky I was to not get caught up in the net. In September 2014 I decided that I needed to pursue a different route within education and scoured the market for alternative options to a 9-3 secondary school which really wasn’t working for me. After a couple of weeks of submitting application forms for educational institutes across the country, I found out about the ‘Apprenticeship Academy 14+’ at Leeds City College, an alternative vocational learning environment for students who would usually be in Years 10 and 11.

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