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Meeting The Entitlement Framework
Principals’ Conference
9 and 10 May 2012
AGENDA
Welcome and Introductions
• Anne Marie Duffy
Setting the Context
• Gavin Boyd
‘Meeting the Entitlement Framework’
• Marion Wilcox - CCEA
• John McClune - Invest NI
Panel of Peers - ‘Sharing Experience’
Q+A Panel
Setting the Context
Gavin Boyd
Meeting the Entitlement
Framework
Marion Wilcox - CCEA
John McClune – Invest NI
Shared Platform with Invest NI
The Northern Ireland Executive has taken the important step of
making the economy the top priority in its Programme for
Government.
“CCEA and Invest NI have worked together to develop qualifications
to help build the skills and competences needed for the future
development of our economy”.
Invest NI - Themes
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Stimulating Innovation and Creativity
Improving Employability and the relevance and use of skills
Competing in The Global Economy
Encouraging Business Growth
Developing our Economic Infrastructure
Promoting Employment and Employability
Links with Employers/Business
New Applied GCSE, GCE Qualifications
Specification
Type
Level
Agriculture and Land Use
GCSE
2
Contemporary Crafts
GCSE
2
Environmental Technology
GCE
3
Journalism in the Media and
Communications Industry
GCE
3
Performing Arts
GCE
3
Software and Systems Development
GCE
3
Sports Science and the Active Leisure
Industry
GCE
3
Common Features
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New subjects to CCEA
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Involvement of industry/employers in the consultation and quality assurance
process
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Involvement of HE in the consultation and quality assurance process
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Skills development – particularly communication, improving own learning
and performance, problem solving and working with others within a work
related context
Agriculture and Land Use
Unique features
Employability
• New GCSE Qualification
• Relevant to the Northern Ireland
economy – agri-food industry
represents employment for around
50,000 people in farms & factories
• Additional subject to CCEA’s suite
of science qualifications
• Developed for the Northern Ireland
market
• The Programme for Government
identifies the agri-food sector as
being of particular relevance to the
Northern Ireland economy
• Use of contextual tasks for
controlled assessment
• Skills development in planning
research presentation relevant to a
work-related topic
Agriculture and Land Use
Content
Assessment
• Unit 1
Soils, Crops and Habitats
• External paper -1 hr 15 mins
• External paper - 1 hr 15 mins
• Unit 2
Animals on the Land
• Controlled Assessment
2 x Planning & Investigation Tasks
1 x Research & Presentation Task
Contemporary Crafts
Unique features
Employability
• New GCSE qualification
• Programme for Government
commitment to DCAL Creative
Industries innovation
• Emphasis on making activities
which explore the properties and
characteristics of materials and the
processes and techniques needed
to manipulate them
• Wide range of disciplines available
• Component 1: Learning File encourages students to support
and inform their practical work by
investigating the work and
practices of craft makers/designers
• Develops awareness of
• Component 2: Working to a Brief
employability options, business
encourages students to show
models and opportunities within the
understanding of the importance of
creative industries
producing a project plan as they
plan their work and produce an
outcome that fulfils the brief
Contemporary Crafts
Content
Assessment
• Component 1
Making: Exploring Materials,
Techniques & Processes
• Controlled Assessment
- Edited portfolio of practical
work and a learning file
• Component 2
Working to a Brief
• Examination
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
Environmental Technology
Unique features
Employability
• New GCE subject
• Qualification is linked to current
Invest NI priorities for the
development and promotion of the
sustainable energy industry
• Relevant to the growing green
economy, especially in regard to
renewable energy sources and
environmental building
performance
• Use of work-related tasks for
internal assessment
• Potential pathway into a range of
careers, for example, Engineering,
Environmental Planning,
Conservation and Architecture
• Programme For Government
Environmental Technology
Content
Assessment
• Unit AS 1: The Earth’s Capacity to
Support Human Activity
• External paper - 1 hr 30 mins
• Unit AS 2: Renewable Energy
Technologies
• Technical Report
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit A2 1: Building and Managing a
Sustainable Future
• Unit A2 2: Environmental Building
Performance and Measurement
• External paper - 2 hrs
• Technical Report
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
Journalism in the Media and
Communications Industry
Unique features
Employability
• New GCE Qualification
• Reporting, researching, editing,
producing and designing skills
• Follows on from CCEA’s GCSE
Journalism in the Media and
Communications Industry
• Development of writing and
production journalistic skills in print,
online print and broadcast format
• Emphasis on the practical
journalistic skills needed in the
communications industry
• Use of production methods and
skills used in traditional journalism,
digital media and citizen journalism
Journalism in the Media and
Communications Industry
Content
Assessment
• Unit AS 1: Journalism in Print
• External paper - 2 hrs
• Unit AS 2: Print portfolio
• Print Portfolio
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit A2 1: Cross-Platform
Journalism and Interactivity
• External paper - 2 hrs
• Unit A2 2: Online Print and
Broadcast Feature Portfolio
• Online Print and Broadcast Feature
Portfolio
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
Performing Arts
Unique features
Employability
• New GCE Qualification
• Opportunity to research roles within
Arts administration
• 2 pathways – performance and
production
• Investigation of employment
opportunities and working methods
linked to industry practice
• Opportunity to develop
understanding of how to get work in
a chosen performing arts pathway
• Production of promotional materials
to accompany response to the
Commission Brief
Performing Arts
Content
Assessment
• Unit AS 1: Skills Development
and Application
• Portfolio
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit AS 2: Planning and
Realising a Performing Arts
Event
• Portfolio and live performance
(Visiting Moderator)
• Unit A2 1: Planning for
Employment
• Promotional portfolio (including
preparation for and participation
in a mock audition/interview)
• Unit A2 2: Performing to a
Commission Brief
• Portfolio and live performance
(Visiting Examiner)
Software and Systems Development
Unique features
Employability
• New GCE qualification
• Focuses on developing
programming skills
• Linked to current Invest NI priorities
for the development and promotion
of Software development and
programming skills
• Emphasis on object oriented
development and event driven
programming along with systems
approaches and database
concepts.
• Opportunity to develop
programming skills in an event
driven application and designing
and implementing a programming
solution
• Potential pathway into a career in
the Software development industry
Software and Systems Development
Content
Assessment
• Unit AS 1: Introduction to Object
Oriented Development
• External paper - 2 hrs
• Unit AS 2: Event Driven
Programming
• Portfolio of Event Driven
application
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit A2 1: Systems Approaches
and Database Concepts
• External paper – 2 hrs
• Unit A2 2: Implementing Solutions
• Portfolio of implementing software
solutions
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
Sports Science and the Active Leisure
Industry
Unique features
Employability
• New subject
• NI 10-year strategy for sport and
physical recreation
• Combines elements of sports
science/physical education and
leisure studies
• Development of understanding of
the role of a coach/fitness
instructor/manager in both
assessing sports performance and
implementing a fitness programme
• Development of essential
workplace business skills as
students undertake a project that is
relevant to the active leisure
industry
Sports Science and the Active Leisure
Industry
Content
Assessment
• Unit AS 1: Fitness and training for
Sport
• Fitness and Training Portfolio
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit AS 2: The Active Leisure
Industry: Health, Fitness and
Lifestyle
• External paper - 2 hrs
• Unit A2 1: Analysing Sports
Performance or Event
Management in the Active Leisure
Industry
• Evaluation of Sports Performance
Portfolio or
• Planning and evaluating an active
leisure management event
- Internally marked
- Externally moderated
• Unit A2 2: The Application of
Science to Sports Performance
• External paper - 2 hrs
Key Dates
Date Assessment
Content
• Autumn term 2012
Activity
• New specifications and specimen
assessment materials to be
available to schools
• Summer 2012 – 2013
• Support materials developed
• September 2013
• Specifications available for first
teaching
• GCSE Summer 2015
• GCE
- AS Summer 2014
- A2 Summer 2015
• First Awards
New Applied QCF Qualifications
Specification
Type
Level
First teaching
Understanding Business
Enterprise with Languages
and Tourism
QCF
1 and 2
September 2012
Creative Crafts,
Understanding Business
Enterprise & Employability
QCF
1 and 2
September 2012
Personal and Citizenship
Effectiveness
QCF
1 and 2
September 2013
Space Science Technology
QCF
2
September 2013
Understanding Business Enterprise with
Languages and Tourism
Qualifications title
Proposed Structure and Subject
Areas
Understanding Business
Candidates must complete:
Enterprise with Languages
 Understanding Business
and Tourism Level 1, Level 2
Enterprise units
A practical context for tourism,
languages and business
enterprise encouraging
development of skills that are
essential to economic growth
in NI
Comprising of:
 Inter Cultural unit
 Travel and Tourism units
 Language units
(1 Speaking and 1 Writing)
 Credit Value
First
Teaching
2012
Creative Craft, Business Enterprise
and Employability
Qualifications title
Proposed Structure and
Subject Areas
First Teaching
Creative Craft,
Understanding
Business and
Employability
Level 1, Level 2
 Creative Craft,
Understanding Business
and Employability units
2012
Develop basic craft
skills whilst focusing on
employment and selfemployment issues
 Understanding Business
units
 Creative Craft units (lead
units)
 Employability units
 Credit value
Personal and Citizenship Effectiveness
Qualifications title
Proposed Structure and Subject
Areas
First Teaching
Personal and
Citizenship
Effectiveness
Level 1, Level 2
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Employability
2013
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Personal Development
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Citizenship
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Credit Value
Space Science Technology
Qualifications title
Proposed Structure and
Subject Areas
First Teaching
Level 2 Certificate in
Space Science
Technology
• Developing and Using Research
Skills
2013
• Using Space to Develop
Scientific Methods of Enquiry
• Using Scientific Findings to Solve
a Problem
• Using Satellite Technologies unit
• Using GIS to Access and
Manage Data unit
• Using Technology to Create,
Present and Publish Information
• Credit value
We are building
our Qualifications
Portfolio
QCF
GCE
Software and
Systems
Development
QCF
Business Creative Craft,
Language Business Enterprise
and
and Employability
Tourism
GCE
Environmental
Technology
GCE
Journalism in the Media
and Communications
Industry
GCE
Performing
Arts
GCE
Sports Science in
the Leisure Industry
GCE in Applied Business
Applied ICT
Applied Health & Social Care
GCSE
Contemporary
Crafts
GCE/GCSE
Moving Image
Arts………………
QCF
Space Science
Technology
CCEA link with
BTEC Firsts and
BTEC Nationals
GCSE
Agriculture and
Land Use
Certificate in
Personal
Effectiveness
Key
Skills
BTEC Firsts and Nationals
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Art & Design
Business
Construction
Engineering
Health and Social Care
Hospitality
IT & Computing
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Landbased
Media Music and Performing Arts
Public Services
Science
Sport
Travel & Tourism
Panel of Peers
Sharing Experience
Q+A Panel
Thank You