Thursday 25 February 2016
If you’re looking for an easier way to deliver robust, engaging vocational qualifications to your pupils, look no further than NCFE V Certs.
V Certs are a truly vocational alternative that give your learners a rounded educational experience. Practical learning is engaging for pupils, and V Certs give pupils hands-on learning opportunities. These qualifications also allow pupils to specialise within the broader vocational sector and provide access to specific career paths.
The V Cert internal and external assessments are flexible to deliver, with a transparent and easy to understand grading model. The assessment methods encourage pupils to engage with professionals from the relevant sectors and allow them to consider career paths.
V Certs don’t just offer fantastic benefits for your pupils, however. We know that workload is a pressing issue for school staff, so we’ve made our V Certs easy to deliver, reducing the strain on you.
“V Certs have minimised the paperwork to maximise the teaching, in my experience.”
Dave Tisdale, Head of Art at Roding Valley High School couldn’t believe how easy his V Cert experience has been, having struggled with delivering other GCSE-level vocational qualifications in the past. He switched his Year 10 pupils to V Certs and hasn’t looked back since.
“The paperwork is minimal compared to what I’m used to”, he said, which is one of the biggest benefits of V Certs in a time when teachers are struggling with workload, particularly the administration side of delivering qualifications. He continued, “[V Certs have] minimised the paperwork to maximise the teaching, in my experience.”
As well as taking away the unnecessary administration work, we allocate you dedicated, named contacts to help you every step of the way. You’ll never be waiting around with NCFE, as we always answer the phone within 2 rings. You get a personal Centre Support Assistant, who’ll be on hand to help you with the day-to-day running of V Certs and answer any questions you might have. You’ll also be given a dedicated Business Development Officer, who can help you maximise your curriculum. Finally, you’ll have your own External Moderator, who’ll visit your centre to sample pupils’ work, monitor processes and be on hand to answer any of your burning questions.
Mr Tisdale also believes the flexibility and content of the qualifications are thorough, benefitting both he and his pupils, saying: “If a teacher was designing a qualification, this is how I think the qualification would be. I’m very much left with the parameters of how to assess it and what kind of things are expected, but given the leeway to do whatever I want within the criteria”.
With engaging content and assessments that meet Ofqual and Department for Education (DfE) requirements, minimal paperwork and dedicated support every step of the way, V Certs really are the full package.