The future of PSHE in schools

By: David Grailey

Chief Executive

Monday 16 June 2014

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Vocational qualification courses cover a plethora of subjects and initiatives beyond just the headline grabbing performance point carrying ones. Just last month I read, with great interest, the latest news that MPs’ have launched an inquiry into the future of PSHE and Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) in schools.

This MPs’ inquiry comes on the back of last year’s Ofsted report which found that 40% of the 50 schools visited didn’t offer a good enough standard of PSHE. The report, entitled ‘Not Yet Good Enough’ also found that half of secondary schools needed to improve SRE.

The forthcoming MPs’ enquiry will look at a number of areas within both schools and academies including the quality of PSHE and SRE teaching. The current accountability system will also be examined in order to understand if it’s sufficient enough to ensure that schools focus on PSHE.

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Of course many of you are all too aware of the importance of PSHE and SRE in schools and have already been speaking with my colleagues at NCFE about the range of PSHE subject qualifications that can go some way to helping ensure PSHE among pupils.

The NCFE range of short Level 1 qualifications in subjects like Sexual Health Awareness and Personal Safety Awareness are a great way to further develop or introduce school wide PSHE and SRE programmes to your pupils, and as they’re all between 9 and 27 Guided Learning Hours they’re ideal for fitting around existing timetables or for running as short summer school programmes.

What’s more, our suite of qualifications also comes with a range of free interactive resources which include short films, tutorials and animations.

If you’d like to know more about these and other short qualifications for schools from NCFE then you can visit our webpage here or request our ‘What Next?’ brochure by emailing [email protected].

I hope you all have a great, well-earned summer break.

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