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The Association of Colleges (AoC) has backed Ofqual plans to ditch current regulatory arrangements for the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). A consultation launched in July on the QCF, which was itself launched in 2008, proposed that qualifications should be regulated by Ofqual’s general conditions of recognition. A number of submissions from FE organisations, including […]
News
With the outlook for Functional Skills very different to just a few months ago, Charlotte Bosworth makes the case for the qualification as a viable alternative to the GCSE. If you cast your mind back to July and the written ministerial statement about post-16 English and maths, the writing was on the wall for Functional […]
Opinion
More debate is needed about the future of the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) in the face of plans by Ofqual to abolish it, says Graham Hasting-Evans. we agree that change is necessary, but reliance on the General Conditions of Recognition (GCoR) as a replacement for an employer-recognised framework is inadequate to meet the needs […]
Qualifications should remain “as stable as possible,” Ofqual chief Glenys Stacey (pictured) has warned Skills Minister Nick Boles as he considers a major relaunch of Functional Skills qualifications. Ms Stacey (pictured), replying to a letter from Mr Boles early last month in which he said Functional Skills would “continue to be one of the types of qualification […]
Jim Proudfoot looks at Ofqual plans for accreditation requirements. In order for a qualification to be offered in England it must have been accepted onto the Register of Regulated Qualifications to show that it is of a required standard and fit for purpose. Until now all these qualifications have had an “accreditation requirement”. This means […]
Ofqual has been urged not to “throw the baby out with the bathwater” after its boss hinted the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) could be scrapped. Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) chief executive Stephen Wright said he would like to see the brand and good elements of the QCF retained after Ofqual chief executive Glenys […]
Functional Skills “will continue to be one of the types of qualification that learners have available,” according to a newly-published letter from Skills Minister Nick Boles. The letter, from Mr Boles to Ofqual chief regulator Glenys Stacey, appears to provide much hoped-for support for the qualifications, which aim to equip learners with basic English, maths and […]
The requirement for qualifications to be accredited by Ofqual before they are regulated will be lifted from next month, the qualifications watchdog chief has announced. Glenys Stacey, Ofqual chief executive, told the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) national conference in Leicester this morning that plans to remove accreditation requirement from all qualifications except GCSEs and […]
Childcare qualification providers have called for Functional Skills to be reinstated as entry requirements for early years educator (EYE) qualifications after Skills Minister Nick Boles showed his support for the qualifications. The government announced in February it would only fund EYE apprentices who had already gained at least a grade C in GCSE maths and […]
