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UK CURRICULUM & LEARNING


• BTEC Nationals: A BTEC National qualification can lead to employment, further study, or professional development programmes. These are roughly equivalent in standard to A levels.


• BTEC Apprenticeship: work-based learning programmes available in more than 25 sectors.


BTEC LEVELS To enable qualifications to be compared across countries they are rated on a difficulty scale. There are nine qualification levels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, ranging from Entry level to Level 8. BTEC qualifications are available in seven of these levels. • Level 1 Introductory Diplomas and Certificates teach the basic knowledge and skills needed for a specific job


• Level 2 First Diplomas and Certificates give good knowledge and understanding of a subject and the skills to perform a variety of tasks. They can be useful when applying for jobs


• Level 3 Diplomas, Certificates and Awards and BTEC Nationals give knowledge, skills and understanding at a more detailed level. They can be useful as a prelude to university


• Level 4 Professional Diplomas, Certificates and Awards provide specialist learning. They can be useful for people working in technical and professional jobs


• Level 5 Professional Diplomas, Certificates and Awards provide deeper knowledge of a subject. They involve a high level of work expertise and competence in managing and training others


• Level 6 Advanced Professional Diplomas, Certificates and Awards provide high-level knowledge for people working as knowledge-based professionals or in professional management positions


• Level 7 Advanced Professional Diplomas, Certificates and Awards provide a highly developed and complex level of knowledge. They are suitable for senior professionals and managers


BTEC Diplomas are largely equivalent to other qualifications, such as GCSEs (Levels 1 and 2), A Levels (Level 3) and university degrees (Levels 6 and 7).


NEW BTEC NATIONALS From 2016 and 2017, new BTEC Nationals were introduced, bringing the total number of subjects available to 31. Edexcel worked alongside more than 5,000 employers and higher-education institutions to help develop the new courses.


According to Edexcel, BTEC National qualifications provide a more practical, real-world way of learning and their value is recognised by teaching professionals, employers, the higher-education sector and students.


The number of school-age students studying for at least one BTEC tripled between 2006 and 2014 to 150,000 and Edexcel reports that one in four students who started higher education in England in 2015 had achieved a BTEC National qualification.


WHY BTEC? Many industry sectors have National Occupational


Standards that professionals must follow. Edexcel has built the content of the BTECs around these standards. This, it says, is why BTECs are recognised as valuable qualifications within each industry.


According to Ian Blenkharn, director of education and student experience at the University of Exeter, “We’ve seen a real rise in the number of students applying with BTEC qualifications, and we’ve accepted many more as well, and what we’re really pleased to see is that those students are going on to be really successful while they’re at the University of Exeter.” BTECs can be studied alongside, or instead of, GCSEs or A Levels in schools and higher-education colleges. They are mostly studied full time, although they also provide career development opportunities for people already in work. As a result, some schools and colleges provide part-time courses. Grading uses a Pass (P), Merit (M), Distinction (D) and Distinction* (D*) scale. Depending on the course, students may receive one, two or three grades. BTEC Nationals qualify for UCAS points for students wishing to move on to university. BTECs are made up of a number of units, which are usually assessed through assignments that are set and marked by the teacher or course tutor. However, a handful of BTECs include externally marked tests.


Assignments can be in the form of tests, research, essays, projects, investigations, artwork, fieldwork or experiments, often linked with practical exercises. Students are assessed throughout their course, so that they can analyse and improve their performance.


BTEC APPRENTICESHIPS


BTEC apprenticeships are work-based learning programmes that are available at Levels 2–5 and involve both on- and off-the-job training. They are available in more than 25 sectors and can result in a set of nationally recognised qualifications.


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