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Delivering
iplomas
Volume 2 No 1
Spring 2010
Editorial Diplomas advice & guidance
A bright future for Diplomas 5 More lessons learned 10
Editor Pete Henshaw on the General Election, An update from NFER’s Diploma evaluation
the National Delivering Diplomas Awards, programme focusing on why students choose
and the Fifth National Delivering Diplomas to study the Diploma
conference IAG 44
Functional Skills 19-20 What are the key questions that our
Feature article Our Functional Skills expert looks at what Information, Advice and Guidance systems
exactly being “functional” means and how have to answer for students?
T_h e political landscape 9 this aspect of the Diploma is developing
An analysis of the implications of the General Delivering Diplomas Awards
Election for the future of Diplomas Advice for examiners 28-29
Diplomas examiner Paula Goddard on three Delivering Diplomas Awards 6
Opinion key areas of assessment – appealing marks, We unveil the fi nalists of the inaugural
internal modifi cation, and rewriting exam Delivering Diplomas National Awards
Iain Wright, 14 to 19 minister 8 board assignments
Also inside this issue
Eighteen months into delivery, Iain Wright
updates us on his Diplomas vision ASL and PLTS 30-31
Diploma FAQs 48
Delivering Diplomas editorial board member
QCDA Diploma support 50
T_h e recession 32 Ian Duckett gives advice for Additional and
Cover image: An engineering student from the Fareham
Has the recession hit Diplomas? A debate Specialist Learning and evidencing Personal,
and Gosport consortium. See page 46 for the full case
between key players in the construction fi eld Learning and T_h inking Skills study about their Engineering Diploma curriculum
Diploma Case Studies
Concorde takes off 13-14 PLTS 27 Employer engagement 36-37
Several years in the making, the Concorde West Herts College has placed Personal, Diploma employer champion Will Butler-
Partnership in South Gloucestershire now Learning and T_h inking Skills very much at the Adams speaks to Delivering Diplomas, while
boasts seven secondary schools, a college heart of the Diploma off er an education-business co-ordinator off ers
and a special school. We feature two tips on setting up successful partnerships
case studies looking at this consortium’s Up the Junction 34-35
Diplomas off er An inspiring partnership in Cambridge has Extended Projects 39
brought together Creative and Media Diploma Gable Hall School has taken a bit-by-bit
Hair and Beauty focus 16-17 students and a local entertainment venue with approach to the Extended Project
We speak to Diploma employer champion impressive results (see picture). We hear from
Gill Morris and the London College of all those involved about their Diploma work Diplomas and technology 45
Beauty T_h erapy about this line of learning T_h e role of technology in facilitating
Diploma delivery can be crucial
Diploma assessment 22-23
T_h e internal assessment aspects of the Work experience 47
Diploma are challenging. A lead assessor We hear from a Nottingham company
talks about how to manage the workload about how to ensure a good work placement
T_h e Diploma Accord 24-25
Also inside this issue
Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire are in the T_h e rural challenge 26
fi nal stages of signing up to a Diploma MPD in action 40
Accord, setting out their vision for 14 to 19 Working with the NHS 41
provision and partnership working Engineering success 46
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