worth fi ghting for Editorial
Chris Parr Editor
lowest ebb – deep down in the darkest depths, fi ghting for breath. I don’t share this view. It is impossible to deny that the qualifi cations have undergone the most fundamental of changes since the coalition government came to power. No longer are they something that everyone will have to off er; they are now something that nobody has to off er, unless they want to. And it is the fi nal four words of that sentence that give me hope. People do want the Diplomas, they do see the benefi ts of them, and students do want to study them. T e Diplomas will survive. T ey are qualifi cation worth fi ghting for, and fi ght we shall. As you read this, four more Diplomas will have come on stream. T e names of these lines prove just how relevant these qualifi cations are. Public Services, Travel and Tourism, Sport and Active Leisure, and Retail Business are four of the biggest and most exciting employment sectors in the country. Pupils will want to study them, and schools and colleges should be queuing up to off er them that chance. So the Diplomas have not been condemned by this coalition. Far from
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it. Ministers have taken steps to make them easier to off er, and easier to run. Some will criticise the removal of the Gateway process and the decision to allow schools and colleges to off er individual Diplomas without working in collaboration with others. But many school and college leaders who were previously daunted by the process of proving readiness to deliver, or who were located in areas where collaboration was not easy to achieve, will now have the opportunity deliver them according to demand. Success breeds success, and as more and more of our young people achieve greater and greater things off the back of their Diploma studies, then more and more colleges and schools will come on board.
T e Sixth National Delivering Diplomas Conference Despite the encouraging signs, there are still new challenges to be met. New process to negotiate. And new rules to adhere to. With this in mind, the sixth National Delivering Diplomas Conference, which takes place in Birmingham on October 11, is entitled Delivery Under a New Government. It will bring together Diploma deliverers from across the country to hear the latest political line on the qualifi cations, and participate in workshops designed to help educators involved in the Diploma to navigate this diffi cult but immensely rewarding path. See the back page for more information. And as for Delivering Diplomas magazine, this issue contains reaction to the political changes, case studies of some of the lines that came on stream in 2009, and interviews and articles focusing the teachers, lecturers, employers, consortia and students that have been taking part in Diplomas. We will be back in March and, as ever, if you have something you want to shout about in your area, then please get in touch. T e more we share best practice, the stronger the Diplomas will become.
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F THE story of the Diplomas to date was depicted as a graph, it would have more peaks and troughs than the tides of the oceans. Change has been relentless. Many observers will tell you that the qualifi cations are at their
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