Monday 17 March 2014
In September last year we launched our V Certs. The result of a lot of hard work from NCFE staff and customers, it has been great to receive lots of positive feedback on the fruits of this labour – lots of quality of the support resources now available.
This was possible because we were able to work closely with customers through our 2013 V Cert pilot initiative. During this pilot we worked with a number of schools to ensure our qualifications and resources were right for schools.
Following the release of the Department for Education (DfE) approved qualifications list, we’re delighted to be able to announce that we’re now recruiting for our new 2014 V Cert pilot.
Covering qualifications in; Craft; Business and Enterprise; and Computer Technology we’re looking for centres to take part in a pilot programme to generate sample evidence against the assessment criteria for all the new qualifications.
Why take part?
V Certs are part of the handful of qualifications that count in the DfE school performance tables and many of the schools that ran the pilot are now actively running the qualifications this year. There are several benefits to getting involved in 2014:
- it can count towards your CPD and provides opportunity for updating valuable skills
- centres that participate can use the work produced to accredit prior learning for the assessment criteria covered if they chose to go on to register learners on the qualification in September 2014*
- after completion of the pilot your centre will be paid £400 for you to compensate your use of materials, staffing or any expense incurred.
- We’ll share feedback and comments from across the pilot network with you too
- at the end of the pilot we’ll also run an optional school panel meeting where we’ll invite representatives from all schools to meet, discuss and network.
When will the pilots take place?
There are various ways you could deliver the pilot to fit in with the needs of your school.
All we ask is that you return the student work, signed portfolio release forms and completed grading trackers by 30th April.
If you or your staff are interested then please call our V Cert development team on 0191 239 5496.